udev 138 present in zbiggy-WIP- followup

[Dennis Veatch]

On Tuesday 24 February 2009 7:18:37 am Dennis Veatch wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 February 2009 6:19:10 am Dennis Veatch wrote:
> > On Tuesday 24 February 2009 3:35:12 am zbiggy wrote:
> > > Dnia 24 lutego 2009 2:02 Dennis Veatch <dennisveatch at bellsouth.net>
> >
> > napisał(a):
> > > > On Monday 23 February 2009 6:51:18 pm Zbigniew Luszpinski wrote:
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > >
> > > > > here:
> > > > > http://foo-projects.org/git/?p=zbiggy/moonbase.git;a=shortlog;h=ref
> > > > >s/ he ads/ zbiggy-WIP on my personal zbiggy-WIP branch there is
> > > > > recent udev 138 I wrote for myself.
> > > > >
> > > > > If some brave testers will find it fully working we could think of
> > > > > moving it to production branch. Now udev 138 works for me.
> > > > >
> > > > > have a nice day,
> > > > > Zbigniew 'zbiggy' Luszpinski
> > > >
> > > > Well your in luck, just got started rebuilding a box. So gave it a
> > > > whirl. A successful reboot and no errors seen at that stage. One only
> > > > curious thing I noticed in /var/log/messages. There was only one
> > > > instance of udev starting and that was for 128, even though the box
> > > > had been rebooted several times, and I had just barely gotten past
> > > > the lunar rebuild part, recompile kernel, etc. I was expecting to see
> > > > more than one. I mention that because a grep on messages after
> > > > installing 138 and a reboot, there were no messages about udev 138
> > > > starting. A  udev stop/start produced one.
> > > >
> > > > On a side note after starting udev, dmesg showed this;
> > > >
> > > > udev: starting version 138
> > > > udev: deprecated sysfs layout; update the kernel or disable
> > > > CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED; some udev features will not work correctly
> > > >
> > > > Right now your looking pretty good.
> > >
> > > Thanks for testing. When go back home will look for these. I will also
> > > downgrade udev to Lunar's current official and then update back to 138
> > > to make sure some old files were not left on system. Also I will
> > > rethink if we should keep udev compat rules to keep compatibility with
> > > older kernels. Thanks for detailed report.
> > >
> > > have a nice day,
> > > Zbigniew 'zbiggy' Luszpinski
> >
> > Actually, I think you could leave it as it is for now, and see what falls
> > down. I normally have that CONFIG turned off, just forgot to do that.
> >
> > Dennis
> > _______________________________________________
>
> Tried it on my T60+X1400+fglrx with CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED disabled, and
> another box with NVIDIA, and found no problems. To me those are a couple of
> the biggies.
>
> Again just a minor thing with udev starting up, obviously 138 is working
> but not throwing that into /var/log/messages. Not big deal, but it would
> warm my fuzzies if a notification was given some where.
>
>
> _______________________________________________


Oh, and you will want to do a `lunar fix hal`.