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Quoted 5 lines · Wichert Akkerman
Quoted 1 line · Previously James Simmons
Only if they have more than one video card which is pretty small number.
Since when is that a relevant factor in breaking backwards compatibility?
All G400 and newer matroxfb users have dualhead system, so number is not that small. Definitely not from my point of view ;-)
Problem is that Debian unstable still supports 2.2.x kernels (kernel-image-2.2.20... & 2.2.22) and this version supports only 0/32/64/... minors.
So if you filled bug against makedev, you have to fill bug against 2.2.x kernels too - either remove them or patch them, as otherwise updated makedev has to conflict with kernels << 2.4.0.
Petr Vandrovec
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Quoted 2 lines · Previously Riley Williams
Surely the correct fix is to have the updated MAKEDEV do something along the lines of...
That's fine for new installs, but people never run MAKEDEV when upgrading their kernel.
Wichert.
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