[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] udev-145-1

[Dan McGee]

On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Gerardo Exequiel
Pozzi<vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
> Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:
>> Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:
>>
>>> Tobias Powalowski wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>> bump to latest udev version, please test it well.
>>>> Has many new things included, which also dig in glib2 and libusb depend.
>>>>
>>>> greetings
>>>> tpowa
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Sign-off both i686, x86_64.
>>>
>>> All boot OK, (custom kernel no initrd) no special setups, like raid or
>>> lvm. My usb devices are with the correct perms (4-in-1 reader, pendrive,
>>> ipod, mp3 player). The firmware for my printer is loaded OK, and kvm-88
>>> still boot both arches (Arch Linux kernel):)
>>>
>>>
>>> One sidenote, this version support ACL, so I guess that is better now to
>>> switch /dev from ramfs to tmpfs in initscripts. (the current udev
>>> documentation talks about tmpfs not ramfs)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> By the way, doing this also will help, at least in one step, this
>> feature request (FS#15612 - better support for selinux) [#1]
>>
>> [#1] http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15612
>>
>>
> I filled a FS [#1] with the patch
>
> Sidenote2: This udev bump from minimal kernel version from 2.6.22 to
> 2.6.25 (mandatory) because use the signalfd(). An announce required?

Wowzers, I'm not so sure we want to do that. We just got scared with
glibc from going past 2.6.18, this is a rather significant jump (and I
know my current Xen kernel is .24).

-Dan