On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 18:25, Darcoux Christine <bouloumag@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am a little confused about the minimum kernel version need for udev . > Is there a contradiction between these two sentences from the README file ? > > "The upstream udev project's set of default rules may require a most recent > kernel release to work properly. This is currently version 2.6.31." That's what we usually test and should work out-of-the-box. > and > > "Requirements: > Â- Version 2.6.27 of the Linux kernel" That's the first version of the old kernels that has all the requirement to just run udev. It may fail completely with older versions. But nobody really tests that, I guess, at least not constantly. Rules may be missing. Many possible issues could be worked around, are might not be to find in the udev source tree. > Does it means that the **real** minimum requirement is kernel 2.6.31 ? > If not, what will works with 2.6.31 that will not work with 2.6.27 ? Nobody really knows, I guess, because we usually don't run old kernels on new userspace tools. We only make sure that new kernels can run on old userspace, not the other way around. Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
