From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Martin Schlemmer" Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 15:40:45 +0000 Subject: Re: does udev really require hotplug? Message-Id: <013e01c415a4$3389df70$d100000a@sbs2003.local> MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-gP1uqDMXYUIA89zYdPj2" List-Id: References: <20040102101051.GA12073@sole.infis.univ.trieste.it> In-Reply-To: <20040102101051.GA12073@sole.infis.univ.trieste.it> To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=-gP1uqDMXYUIA89zYdPj2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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-- ------------------------------------------------------- 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_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&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