Re: [PATCH] use uevents in udevd

[Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>]

Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 11:55 +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> 
>>Marco d'Itri wrote:
>>
>>>On Jan 14, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Comments welcome.
>>>
>>>Nice work.
>>>How can the init scripts determine if support for uevents is available?
>>>
>>
>>Good question. Asked myself the same one just now.
>>I couldn't figure out whether this information is exported from the 
>>kernel directly, so that leaves two possibilities:
>>
>>- check /proc/config.gz for CONFIG_KOBJECT_UEVENT
>>   (if /proc/config.gz is available)
>>- use a program to check for it (like the attached one).
> 
> 
> Did you try the program on a kernel without uevents. I think you can
> bind successful to all the 32 netlink sockets even without a "sender".
> 

Great. You are correct.

What now?

Scanning /proc/config.gz is ugly.

Cheers,

Hannes
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