Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] hotplug/Linux: remove hotplug support, rely on udev instead

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2012-10-12 at 15:46 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 12, Ian Campbell wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2012-10-12 at 15:14 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > > The patch by itself will have no practical impact unless someone
> > > attempts to build and run a Xen dom0 on a really old base system.
> > 
> > Does anyone have any idea what sort of timeframe hotplug agent stuff
> > really died in, just so we can document something?
> 
> SLES9 (back in 2007) had an early version of udev, hotplug was still in
> use. It looks like hotplug.rpm was finally dropped from SuSE Linux in 2005.

2005 was after 2007 though?

Any way, I've added "e.g. circa SLES9/2007 or earlier" to the end of the
commit message and will apply.



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