Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:43:30 +0200
From: Romano Giannetti <romanol@upcomillas.es>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
Subject: Re: ALPS stop worked between 2.6.13 and 2.6.16
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On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 02:12:26PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On 3/27/06, Romano Giannetti <romanol@upcomillas.es> wrote:
> >
> > Udev is 054 (as per Mandriva 2005). Is that the culprit?
> 
> [~/linux] grep udev Documentation/Changes
> o  udev                   071                     # udevinfo -V
> ...

Bad news... I tried to upgrade udev to 088, but evidently this is not a
trivial task. I had to reinstall back 054 to have the system working ok (I
had a bunch of 

SYS: Mar 29 18:20:11 rukbat udevsend[17819]: unable to connect to event
daemon, try to call udev directly

but then nothing happened, no devices etc. So evidently the new udev is
unable to cope with the old and maybe buggy Mandriva 2005 configuration[1]. 
I unfortunately have no time to desentangle the dependency mess, so it's
time to stop testing new kernels... unless anyone can point me to a "howto".

Thanks again for your time, 

       Romano 

[1] I have to say that udev README explixitely tell "The upstream udev
project does not support or recomend to replace a distro's udev
installation with the upstream version." So I deduce that if kernel require
udev 071, and udev do not reccomend upgrade, I am locked wiht 2.6.13 unless
I decide to upgrade to an unstable distro (current Mandriva has udev 068). 

Well, while I understand the goodness of moving things to userspace, I have
to say that this "double lock" that we have recently is mostly unfortunate. 


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