From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Andrea Barisani" Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 15:39:22 +0000 Subject: Re: does udev really require hotplug? Message-Id: <007101c415a4$01efd050$d100000a@sbs2003.local> List-Id: References: <20040102101051.GA12073@sole.infis.univ.trieste.it> In-Reply-To: <20040102101051.GA12073@sole.infis.univ.trieste.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 12:19:05PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 11:10:51AM +0100, Andrea Barisani wrote: > > > > Hi everybody and happy new year! > > > > Just one simple question about a very simple matter that right now > > I can't figure out: does udev need hotplug package presence? > > > > >From your README: > > > > If for some reason you do not install the hotplug scripts, you must tell the > > kernel to point the hotplug binary at wherever you install udev at. This can > > be done by: > > echo "/sbin/udev" > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug > > > > > > ...does this work properly? > > It should. Does it not for you? > > > It's not clear if some features are lost by not having hotplug script > > installed. > > None of the other programs that hook off of the hotplug program will be > available to you if you do this (automatic driver loading, firmware > loading, devlabel, etc.) > > > Also is this policy subject to changes in the near future? > > What policy? If you don't have the hotplug package installed, then you > can still use udev. If you have the hotplug package installed, I've > detailed how you can still use udev. What's the problem? :) > > thanks, > > greg k-h Ok, now it's all clear :). It wasn't so clear from the documentation (at least for me) and since I'm not fully familiar with hotplug features I've decided to ask ;). Thanks a lot for your feedback Bye -- Andrea Barisani .*. Gentoo Linux Infrastructure Developer V ( ) GPG-Key 0x864C9B9E http://dev.gentoo.org/~lcars/pubkey.asc ( ) 0A76 074A 02CD E989 CE7F AC3F DA47 578E 864C 9B9E ^^_^^ - 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/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel