prepare HAL for kernel 2.6.16 mount change event replacement
Kay Sievers
kay.sievers at vrfy.org
Thu Dec 8 10:21:20 PST 2005
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 01:12:23PM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 20:09 +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > This will be needed for HAL to work with 2.6.16. It changes the current
> > mount handling from device matches to dev_t matches. Would be nice, if
> > someone could try it, if it still works correcly with current kernels.
>
> Hi, sorry for the lag. Lets get this in ASAP.
>
> Looking at the patch there's still some support for listening on the
> netlink socket and some code that can be removed post 2.6.15. Why don't
> we just scrap that and start depending on 2.6.15 since it's going to be
> out soon, before hal 0.5.6 anyway :-)
Yeah, I like to remove that too.
Kay
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