From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754920AbbAJVTE (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jan 2015 16:19:04 -0500 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:37666 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752016AbbAJVTC (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jan 2015 16:19:02 -0500 Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 21:18:58 +0000 From: Al Viro To: Greg KH Cc: Pavel Machek , 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: <20150110211857.GA22149@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <20150110173920.GA31847@amd> <20150110180532.GA8566@kroah.com> <20150110180942.GA10142@amd> <20150110181710.GA8884@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150110181710.GA8884@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 10:17:10AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > 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. ... and this, boys and girls, is why quite a few of us have loathed udev way before it got merged into even nastier shitpile. Still do, for that matter.