Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Date | Sat, 03 Dec 2005 17:48:27 -0500 |
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On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 14:29 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 11:21:38PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: > > On Sat, 03 Dec 2005, David Ranson wrote: > > > > > Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > > > > >udev ;) > > > > > > > >http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2005/Dec/0180.html > > > > > > > > > > > Ahh OK .. I don't use it, so wouldn't have been affected. That's one > > > userspace interface broken during the series, does anyone have any more? > > > > Not only that, udev is default for instance in recent SUSE Linux > > releases, so whether to use or not to use it is a major effort. > > And if you use SUSE releases, use OpenSuSE to keep up to date with all > of the needed kernel programs for the latest kernels. Same with Fedora, > Debian, or Gentoo. They all keep up to date quite well.
And if you use Debian, make sure you remember to do an update after changing a kernel and finding out that something in userland doesn't work. As Greg mentioned to me in the above mentioned thread. Debian/unstable had the proper udev. I just haven't done an update recently, but I download kernels practically every day.
-- Steve
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