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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE2 and Linux 2.4
From:       Adriaan de Groot <adridg () sci ! kun ! nl>
Date:       2001-02-07 15:40:27
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On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Navindra Umanee wrote:
> Does KDE2 still have problems running with Linux 2.4?  According to
> this article, this seems to be the case:

Well, this isn't a KDE2-as-a-whole problem but my personal corner of KDE2
- KPilot - has serious issues with kernel 2.4. And since you've brought it
up I'll describe my problem here and solicit solutions from kde-devel as a
whole:

Kernel 2.4 makes USB device nodes (in /dev/udb/ I think) on-the-fly. One
part of KPilot is a daemon process that sits and waits for input on a
device. Up til now you could set it to wait on /dev/usb0 and all would be
fine. Except under kernel 2.4, there *is* no /dev/usb/0 until the input is
there, so KPilot can't possibly wait on /dev/usb/0 before it exists.

Are there any ideas about what to do about this? [I suppose some kind of
Dir-Watcher might work...]

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