[oe] Angstrom, udev, and kernel version

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 09:08:06AM +0100, Steffen Sledz wrote:
> Since Angstrom updated to udev_151 we've a big problem.
> 
> udevd started from within /etc/init.d/udev crashes with
> 
> /sbin/udevd -d --debug
> 1266997931.250494 [297] udev_monitor_new_from_netlink: error getting socket: Invalid argument error initializing netlink socket
> 1266997931.250718 [297] main: error initializing netlink socket
> 
> Searching the internet for this error i found some hints that this udev version requires at least linux 2.6.27. Unfortunately we are forced to use 2.6.24 because of special driver/machine support for hipox. :(
> 
> Is there a way to rollback to udev_141 for hipox machine?
> 
> Or is there a backport patch available for 2.6.24 to support udev_151?

You can add the following line to either your conf/local.conf or 
conf/distro/include/angstrom-2008-preferred-versions.inc:

PREFERRED_VERSION_udev_hipox = "141"

I too learned that udev-151 (>147) requires glibc-2.9 or higher. Seems like a 
very demanding version of udev...

-- 
Denys