From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Miles Lane Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 20:05:22 +0000 Subject: Re: modutils 2.4.2, please test asap Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org Keith Owens wrote: > "The fact that such modutils binaries won't work with pre-2.4.0 > kernels is not even on my radar screen, quite frankly. There isn't > even an installed base of people using it, and I don't think anybody > of the developers using it are still using pre-kernels. In short, I > see absolutely no reason for even trying to maintain any backwards > compatibility in this area.". > > Because the USB maintainers did not want to support backwards > compatibility, Linus saw no need for the patch. Which is fine, if you > are happy to break backwards compatibility. It should be obvious that > I disagree strongly with this attitude. Thanks for clarifying that. I hadn't quite connected all the dots. I see why you are concerned. Isn't it true that the /sbin/hotplug support code simply doesn't exist in older kernels? I am not sure that making /sbin/hotplug work on older kernels is possible, no matter how much USB developers might want to make it work. If it is true that backporting /sbin/hotplug support can't be done, than the current usbd/policy approach is filling an important need. Another point to consider is that if we decided to somehow backport /sbin/hotplug support, we'd need to migrate the installed based from the policy script approach. That doesn't seem like totally awesome user support to me. Anyhow, enough said. I'll test your patch. Sorry this hasn't worked out as you would have liked. Miles _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel