udev-059's changes with pre-2.6.12 kernels

Jaime Buffery nestu at espresso.foo-projects.org
Fri Jul 1 16:57:15 UTC 2005


Hello everyone,

Now that florin has updated udev upto 059 in moonbase, we thought it would be a 
good idea to warn you about a small issue with pre-2.6.12 kernels and udev-059: 
discovering will be slower. In Greg's words, author and maintainer of udev, 'No, 
this doesn"t "break" support on older kernels, just makes new device discover a 
little slow. It will all still work just fine.  So a user can upgrade udev, and 
then their kernel.'

Worst case wait will be 5 seconds, but that should not be a general rule, so 
don't worry too much ;)

Have fun,
florin and nestu ;) 


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