From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Erdfelt Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 22:29:10 +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 On Tue, Jan 23, 2001, Keith Owens wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 12:30:02 -0800, > David Brownell wrote: > >As it stands, we saw a bug report this morning about how 2.4 modutils > >broke hotplugging with 2.2 kernels, since it created unusable (empty) > >"usbmap" files ... you're not as backwards-compatible as you may > >think you are! > > Switching between kernels is not supposed to require changes to user > space utilities. Now you have to use modutils 2.3 on 2.2 kernels and > modutils 2.4 on 2.4 kernels, that will really annoy people flipping > from one kernel to the other. If somebody would tell me about these > things then I could fix them! I even asked about 2.2 support for USB > earlier in the week and got no replies. Where is the 2.2 backport for > USB? It was integrated into the main kernel tree somewhere in the 2.2.18 pre patches. JE _______________________________________________ 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