From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brian Sammon Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 17:22:41 +0000 Subject: Re: udev issues Message-Id: List-Id: References: <000901c62034$83ee5260$6401a8c0@HomePC> In-Reply-To: <000901c62034$83ee5260$6401a8c0@HomePC> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org > I frankly dont give a damn what dev system is used. But frankly, the > isssues that are caused and not dealt with with the introduction of udev are > entirely unacceptable. They are, to me, symptomatic of a half baked idea. > What is the raw half? Implementation. I am currently running Debian (Sarge) > 2.4.x and cant upgrade to 2.6 because of your 'mess' of a 'solution'. Dont > blame debian. I've run into the exact same problem that Jim here has run into, and it inspired me to post here a few weeks ago. Let me see if I can explain the situation a bit more. In Debian, the testing udev package "conflicts" with hotplug. The stable udev package is 0.056-3, too old for recent 2.6 kernels. As a result, in Debian, if you want to dual-boot 2.4 and 2.6, your 2.4 kernel won't have any kind of hotplugging support if you use the udev debian package for a recent 2.6 kernel. In fact, this is primarily a Debian problem. However, there is an unfortunate lack of distribution-independent information about how to set things up for dual-boot between 2.4 and 2.6. When I was looking into this a few weeks ago, I learned that there was one simple way of dealing with this: Forget udev, and use hotplug for both 2.4 and 2.6. Alternatively, I suspect there may be a way to get udev and hotplug to coexist, and to get your startup scripts to automatically figure out which one to run. Debian doesn't have anything like that (at least not for recent 2.6 kernels). If I get around to hacking something like that together manually, I'll be sure to post a howto. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel