[Users] New Kernel Patch

[Dietmar Maurer]

> > 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.

Is there any docu what is exactly needed? The RHEL 2.6.18 has:

CONFIG_SYSFS=y
CONFIG_INOTIFY=y
CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER=y

So it seem signalfd is missing. Does somebody know if it possible to
backport signalfd to 2.6.18?

What else is required for udev?

- Dietmar