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

[Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi]

Allan McRae wrote:
> Dan McGee wrote:
>> 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).
>>   
>
> Is there a way to build udev without requiring this call?  The
> discussions with the minimal kernel version for our glibc did not even
> venture beyond the .24 version...
>
Or trying if run OK with kernel older than 2.6.25, signalfd is present
in kernel since 2.6.22, but there are some bugs (at least one is
documented in the manual page) and some changes in recent kernels. See
the man-page signalfd(2).

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