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New kernels and old distributions

New kernels and old distributions

Posted Aug 3, 2006 16:00 UTC (Thu) by vmole (guest, #111)
In reply to: New kernels and old distributions by jesper
Parent article: New kernels and old distributions

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

Steve


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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).

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