Re: [adventure] replace /sbin/hotplug by udevd

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 02:11:40AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 16:55 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > The main "problem" with this is for people who don't want to run udev on
> > their machines.  They are happy with their static dev, yet they want to
> > have the hotplug package manage their modules, and do the other fun
> > stuff (like HAL).  If udev requires that it take over the hotplug
> > multiplexer, then anyone who doesn't use udev looses out from the good
> > things that HAL and anyone who relies on the functionality that this new
> > udevd provides can't ensure that all users will actually have it
> > running.
> 
> HAL will not work without udev!

Ah, I didn't realize this.  So much for my "problem" then :)

> And take it the other way around: Which udev user really needs to
> run /sbin/hotplug?

Well, they need to run the files under /etc/hotplug.d/ but that's it.

> The question is not what we can do _with_ udev for people who don't want
> udev, right? :)

Heh, true.

Ok, I like the idea, it's just going to take a while for me to get used
to it.  I also need to think about how everyone's going to convert over
to this new scheme (or not...)

thanks,

greg k-h


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