Old kernel without udev

[Marcin Krol]

> Is it possible these days to not have udev packages installed at all?

>From what I know... no. But I may be totally wrong :-)

I had bunch of machines running with static dev. They were fine with
kernel 2.6.27.x, but stopped working properly with kernel 2.6.32.x. One
was unable to initialize network card saying something about corrupted
firmware in dmesg. Second was unable to use USB drivers, they loaded
fine but not a single USB device was working properly, keyboard and
mouse included. Third was hanging on activating network card, nothing in
logs. Fourth said that RAID controller won't work because firmware is
too old... and few others things like that.

They all started to work properly after replacing static dev with udev.

So its a two sided blade - you won't be able to run kernel older than
2.6.30.x with recent udev, you won't be able to run recent udev as well
if kernel is too old. You must either keep both things old or both
things up to date.

Bascially I'm very disappointed by recent kernels and the way they go,
but thats not proper place to discuss it :-)

M.