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[Jaka Kranjc <lynx AT mages.ath.cx>]

On Monday 08 January 2007 13:25, Juuso Alasuutari wrote:
> On Sunday 07 January 2007 20:38, Jaka Kranjc wrote:
> > You forgot to mention udev-old, which has been made just for that. It is
> > even newer than the version in the current stable.
>
> Udev-old exists only for cases where the user has a < 2.6.15 kernel and
> therefore needs hotplug to autoload modules. It's definitely not meant to
> be the default choice. The next stable will have a 2.6.18.1 kernel.
I didn't mean to say it should be the default choice, just pointed out you  
forgot to show the whole picture.

> > What about udev force_depending on linux and speculating that both will
> > be in the queue?  Would that work?
>
> This and the other solutions that depend on linux have the inherent fault
> that we don't want to enforce a linux dependency on users.
If somebody doesn't use the linux spell, I don't see how we could update the 
kernel their way or ask them to do it without breaking the chain.

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