Bug#398924: Conflict between Gnome, udev, hotplug and linux-2.4

[Marco d'Itri]

On Nov 17, Andreas Barth <aba at not.so.argh.org> wrote:

> We have one problematic case, though: Upgrades from 2.2 to 2.6 on an
> arch without 2.4-kernels. Do we need udev-backports for them?
Why? 2.2 kernels do not have enough hotplug support that IIRC even if
hotplug were installed it would be useless.
And udev can be installed on *any* kernel (as long as it is not already
running), it will just disable itself until the system is rebooted with
a recent enough kernel.

-- 
ciao,
Marco
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