Re: [arch-dev-public] [signoff] udev-145-1

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Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:
> Allan McRae wrote:
>   
>> Dan McGee wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Gerardo Exequiel
>>> Pozzi<vmlinuz386@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>  
>>>       
>>>> Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:
>>>>    
>>>>         
>>>>> Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>      
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Tobias Powalowski wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>        
>>>>>>             
>>>>>>> Hi
>>>>>>> bump to latest udev version, please test it well.
>>>>>>> Has many new things included, which also dig in glib2 and libusb
>>>>>>> depend.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> greetings
>>>>>>> tpowa
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>           
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> Sign-off both i686, x86_64.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> All boot OK, (custom kernel no initrd) no special setups, like
>>>>>> raid or
>>>>>> lvm. My usb devices are with the correct perms (4-in-1 reader,
>>>>>> pendrive,
>>>>>> ipod, mp3 player). The firmware for my printer is loaded OK, and
>>>>>> kvm-88
>>>>>> still boot both arches (Arch Linux kernel):)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> One sidenote, this version support ACL, so I guess that is better
>>>>>> now to
>>>>>> switch /dev from ramfs to tmpfs in initscripts. (the current udev
>>>>>> documentation talks about tmpfs not ramfs)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>         
>>>>>>             
>>>>> By the way, doing this also will help, at least in one step, this
>>>>> feature request (FS#15612 - better support for selinux) [#1]
>>>>>
>>>>> [#1] http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15612
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>> I filled a FS [#1] with the patch
>>>>
>>>> Sidenote2: This udev bump from minimal kernel version from 2.6.22 to
>>>> 2.6.25 (mandatory) because use the signalfd(). An announce required?
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Wowzers, I'm not so sure we want to do that. We just got scared with
>>> glibc from going past 2.6.18, this is a rather significant jump (and I
>>> know my current Xen kernel is .24).
>>>   
>>>       
>> Is there a way to build udev without requiring this call?  The
>> discussions with the minimal kernel version for our glibc did not even
>> venture beyond the .24 version...
>>
>>     
> Or trying if run OK with kernel older than 2.6.25, signalfd is present
> in kernel since 2.6.22, but there are some bugs (at least one is
> documented in the manual page) and some changes in recent kernels. See
> the man-page signalfd(2).
>
>   
oops, I didn't answer your question: No, there are no way to disable it.
Udev from >= 142 is changed in a big step.

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux%2Fhotplug%2Fudev.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=worker

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