> 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. _______________________________________________ pld-devel-en mailing list pld-devel-en@lists.pld-linux.org http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/pld-devel-en