2011/1/18 Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx>: > 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: >> - 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 > (sorry I did not replyed to the list) Thank you Kay for the explanations. May I suggest to include them in the readme ? Cheers -- 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
