From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Olaf Hering Subject: Re: [PATCH] hotplug/Linux: remove hotplug support, rely on udev instead Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:39:08 +0200 Message-ID: <20121018083908.GA26702@aepfle.de> References: <597f0885494d0441b10c.1350051258@probook.site> <1350052613.14806.109.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> <20121012144653.GA22206@aepfle.de> <1350547552.28188.29.camel@dagon.hellion.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1350547552.28188.29.camel@dagon.hellion.org.uk> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ian Campbell Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Thu, Oct 18, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Fri, 2012-10-12 at 15:46 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: > > 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. > > 2005 was after 2007 though? > > Any way, I've added "e.g. circa SLES9/2007 or earlier" to the end of the > commit message and will apply. Thanks. SLES9 was branched and released in July 2004, the last service pack #4 was released in December 2007. Olaf