From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261391AbVFTRYj (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:24:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261398AbVFTRYj (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:24:39 -0400 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:44960 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261391AbVFTRYh (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:24:37 -0400 Message-ID: <42B6FBC7.5000900@pobox.com> Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:24:23 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-6 (X11/20050513) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: Denis Vlasenko , Nick Warne , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.12 udev hangs at boot References: <200506181332.25287.nick@linicks.net> <42B45173.6060209@pobox.com> <200506181806.49627.nick@linicks.net> <200506201304.10741.vda@ilport.com.ua> <20050620164800.GA14798@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20050620164800.GA14798@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 01:04:10PM +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote: > >>Greg, any plans to distribute udev and hotplug within kernel tarballs >>so that people do not need to track such changes continuously? > > > Nope. But if you use udev, you should read the announcements for new > releases, as I did say this was required for 2.6.12, and gave everyone a > number of weeks notice :) Since udev is required for booting, it sounds like you're putting people in an upgrade-or-no-boot situation. That's lame. The kernel should support udev's out in the field, on people's boxes (RHEL, SLES?, Fedora, ...). Jeff