From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754074AbbAJSRN (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jan 2015 13:17:13 -0500 Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:37939 "EHLO out1-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750825AbbAJSRM (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jan 2015 13:17:12 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: O1znvBzPEYCCvlYcmObOj8WgkJExxuH9cDkt3rSEmTGT 1420913831 Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 10:17:10 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Pavel Machek Cc: pali.rohar@gmail.com, sre@debian.org, sre@ring0.de, kernel list , linux-arm-kernel , khilman@kernel.org, aaro.koskinen@iki.fi, ivo.g.dimitrov.75@gmail.com Subject: Re: Getting new udev to run with 2.6.28 Message-ID: <20150110181710.GA8884@kroah.com> References: <20150110173920.GA31847@amd> <20150110180532.GA8566@kroah.com> <20150110180942.GA10142@amd> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150110180942.GA10142@amd> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 07:09:42PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > On Sat 2015-01-10 10:05:32, Greg KH wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 06:39:20PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > N900 has real problems on 3.19, and 2.6.28 should be very well > > > debugged version. Getting it to compile on recent distribution was > > > fun, but I succeeded. Unfortunately, Debian 7's udev does not work > > > with 2.6.28... > > > > > > Does anyone have kernel patches to enable modern udev? > > > > Yes, 3.18, please use that instead. > > Can't, sorry. My goal is to get 3.18/3.19 working, but I really need > working kernel to debug userland (and then use that userland to debug kernel). > > > Seriously, lots of things have changed, if you want to run a "new" > > version of udev with an old kernel, try eudev, they have been attempting > > to keep "legacy" support around in it, don't know how well it has been > > working though, you really are on your own. > > I was hoping someone has devtmpfs patches I could just apply over > 2.6.28 and get a working system? If you want such a crazy thing, you have all of the source to do it yourself, good luck.