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From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hotplug/Linux: remove hotplug support,
 rely on udev instead
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:46:53 +0200
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On Fri, Oct 12, Ian Campbell wrote:

> On Fri, 2012-10-12 at 15:14 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > The patch by itself will have no practical impact unless someone
> > attempts to build and run a Xen dom0 on a really old base system.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea what sort of timeframe hotplug agent stuff
> really died in, just so we can document something?

SLES9 (back in 2007) had an early version of udev, hotplug was still in
use. It looks like hotplug.rpm was finally dropped from SuSE Linux in 2005.

Olaf