Vanilla kernels and usb key automount

[Paolo Ciarrocchi]

On 7/14/06, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > is there anybody running vanilla kernels?
> > I cannot manange to have HAL auto mounting my usb key....
> >
> ...
> >
> > If I boot using an ubuntu kernel everything run like a charm.
> >
> > Months ago I opened a bug to Ubuntu but it has been closed because a
> > vanilla kernel is not supported by Ubunut, that is really silly in my
> > very humble opinion.
>
> I think it's silly expecting Ubuntu to fix something that is apparently
> fixed with an Ubuntu kernel.  How do you expect them to fix it?  They'd
> have to release the fix as a mod to the kernel - except they already did
> that.

That's not a kernel issue, there is something wrong in userspace. And
it seems to only affect Ubuntu and not other distros.

I discussed this issue on bugzilla.kernel.org, I can provide the link
if it's needed (the bug is closed because it cannot be a kernel
issue).

Regards,
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