[arch-dev-public] How old kernel to "support" - Was: [signoff] coreutils-7.5

[Thomas Bächler]

Allan McRae schrieb:
> Uh...  so we can not have a static dev fs?   Wasn't that the whole 
> argument against bumping the kernel version required for glibc too 
> high?  Or has the situation changed enough with the new udev to revisit 
> that issue?

Before 
http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=initscripts.git;a=commitdiff;h=623e3fac060b0f4b32c0ec767d76ef57f5040ed1
it wasn't possible anyway, you just got an empty ramfs in /dev. Since 
then, you could theoretically have your static nodes in 
/lib/udev/devices, run pacman -Rd udev (initscripts depend on it) and 
they would be copied over to /dev on startup. I doubt anyone even tried 
to do that.

It will still work, it will simply try to start udev, fail and use the 
static /dev. I just don't see a point in having a code path here which 
we don't support at all.

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