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New kernels and old distributions

New kernels and old distributions

Posted Aug 3, 2006 16:23 UTC (Thu) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)
Parent article: New kernels and old distributions

It's worth mentioning that, IIRC, what old udev lacks is support for certain things being symlinks. So there's a certain extent to which udev needs to be upgraded to a future-proof version, at which point it can be supported well when the kernel changes further.


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