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From: Chris Smith <smitty_one_each@bigfoot.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hotplug and udev - a question
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 10:41:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877j6alwva.fsf@bigfoot.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ada605fb0603310036s68fdb8d0x3fc6d73d135ffd7e@mail.gmail.com>

>>>>> "John" = John Que <qwejohn@gmail.com> writes:

    John> Hello, I saw that in the last versions of udev, hotplug is
    John> deprecated.  Configuring of adding devices is done through
    John> udev rules.  Can anybody say in a few sentences why was this
    John> change done?  What are the advantages of conifguring with
    John> udev rules over using hotplug ?

    John> Best Regards, John


John,
 Greg KH wrote an article that summarizes things nicely about a year ago:
 http://lwn.net/Articles/123932/
 Beating a drum from another post of mine that hasn't seen much
 response, I hope that the documentation for building a bootable
 kernel with all this udev goodness catches up.  It's rather
 mysterious at the moment.
Best,
Chris



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  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-31 10:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-31  8:36 Hotplug and udev - a question John Que
2006-03-31 10:41 ` Chris Smith [this message]
2006-03-31 17:17 ` Greg KH
2006-04-02 14:04 ` John Que
2006-04-02 20:21 ` Chris Smith
2006-04-02 20:24 ` Greg KH
2006-04-10 14:03 ` Anssi Saari
2006-04-11 10:57 ` juuso.alasuutari

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