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New kernels and old distributions

Posted Aug 3, 2006 5:22 UTC (Thu) by jesper (subscriber, #23316)
Parent article: New kernels and old distributions

I really dont get why this problem isn't fixed the same way as these problems usually are fixed.

Just make the udev version dependent, like this kernel-modules:

ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`
And the firmwares:
ls /lib/firmware/`uname -r`

There could be a:
/lib/udev/`uname -r`

And this problem would be long gone forever.

Jesper

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New kernels and old distributions

Posted Aug 3, 2006 16:00 UTC (Thu) by vmole (guest, #111) [Link]

One problem that doesn't solve is that udev configuration is also potentially version dependent. Spare me from /etc/udev/`uname -r`.

Steve

New kernels and old distributions

Posted Aug 4, 2006 4:39 UTC (Fri) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322) [Link]

> Spare me from /etc/udev/`uname -r`

Someone has to draw the line somewhere. It used to be 'userspace', but
that is blurred by kernel-aware userspace utilities and libraries.

I think config file parsers are a great place to maintain backwards
compatibility (sendmail.cf notwithstanding).