Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264265AbUACVUy (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2004 16:20:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264267AbUACVUx (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2004 16:20:53 -0500 Received: from wblv-224-192.telkomadsl.co.za ([165.165.224.192]:48807 "EHLO gateway.lan") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264265AbUACVTQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2004 16:19:16 -0500 Subject: Re: does udev really require hotplug? From: Martin Schlemmer Reply-To: azarah@gentoo.org To: Andrea Barisani Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing Lists , linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Greg KH In-Reply-To: <20040102101051.GA12073@sole.infis.univ.trieste.it> References: <20040102101051.GA12073@sole.infis.univ.trieste.it> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-gP1uqDMXYUIA89zYdPj2" Message-Id: <1073164919.6075.41.camel@nosferatu.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 23:21:59 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1560 Lines: 61 --=-gP1uqDMXYUIA89zYdPj2 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 12:10, Andrea Barisani wrote: > Hi everybody and happy new year! >=20 > Just one simple question about a very simple matter that right now=20 > I can't figure out: does udev need hotplug package presence? >=20 > >From your README: >=20 > If for some reason you do not install the hotplug scripts, you must tel= l the > kernel to point the hotplug binary at wherever you install udev at. Th= is can > be done by: > echo "/sbin/udev" > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug >=20 >=20 > ...does this work properly? Yes, you just miss all other events that hotplug usually handles, and not udev ... > It's not clear if some features are lost by not having=20 > hotplug script installed. Also is this policy subject to changes in the n= ear > future? >=20 I do not think so, but Greg will have to comment ... --=20 Martin Schlemmer --=-gP1uqDMXYUIA89zYdPj2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/9zJ3qburzKaJYLYRAv2QAKCQkR1B7QEGcp8IknbtHtj77HLegACcCKTW bUb6wZWMt3PpDsceJWPXnHw= =5IbB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-gP1uqDMXYUIA89zYdPj2-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/