[arch-dev-public] [HEADSUP] Minimum kernel version bump

[Jan de Groot]

On do, 2011-12-29 at 20:16 +0100, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've realized I didn't say much productive, but I don't have time to
> > fight this battle, nor do I even really use the LTS kernel. However,
> > this whole darn thing just seems troublesome, and I'm a tad surprised
> > we are the only ones unhappy about this, if that is even the case. Is
> > there no push back occurring on these mailing lists?
> 
> There seem to be no interest in making udev work with old kernels, as
> far as I can tell from the ML.

Which is quite logical. We're the only distribution that maintains the
latest userspace with an LTS kernel. Your statement is: "We upgrade
udev, we have to drop old kernels now". All the other distributions:
"Hmm, this udev sucks, we can't use this with our kernel, let's keep it
on hold, just like we do with pkg X".
This is quite logical: why depend on a several years old kernel, but use
the latest and greatest udev? Those things are tied together quite
closely.

As for the minimum version:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/hotplug/udev.git;a=commitdiff;h=e3c14a7ff3931e4c09711966e3a82fd8f98e568a

That commit was done 5 months ago and is in udev since release 173. Did
we ever receive any bugreport about 2.6.32 not working? The readme file
has stated 2.6.34 requirement for a long time now, and still does that.
So maybe there's no problem at all and things still work fine with
2.6.32. As long as our LTS kernel has the options compiled in as
required by udev, I don't think it will become a huge problem.