[Users] New Kernel Patch

[Dietmar Maurer]

> On Jan 16, Dietmar Maurer <dietmar at proxmox.com> wrote:
> 
> > > Not at all until the new RHEL will be released, because modern
> versions
> > > of udev (like the one in Debian testing/unstable) do not support
> 2.6.18
> > > kernels.
> > Really, do you have more information on that?
> The current version of udev requires a kernel >= 2.6.26 (with
> CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=n so the standard lenny kernel will not work
> anyway).
> This is caused by the need for features like CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER,
> CONFIG_SIGNALFD and sysfs improvements so it cannot be resolved with
> trivial patches (I already did this to not require 2.6.27).
> 
> The last version which supports 2.6.18 is 145 and it cannot be used
> with
> squeeze anyway without a substantial effort because other packages
> depend on newer versions.
> 
> I am the maintainer of the Debian udev package and a frequent upstream
> contributor.

Wow, that is very bad news - I guess there will be a major blocker for 
debian squeeze. What is the suggested workaround for people using older
kernels?

- Dietmar