From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kasper Sandberg Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 00:09:47 +0000 Subject: Re: linux hotplug/hotplug-ng Message-Id: <1123805387.5507.1.camel@localhost> List-Id: References: <1123747167.31868.11.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1123747167.31868.11.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 11:20 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 09:59:27AM +0200, Kasper Sandberg wrote: > > hello.. i am sending this mail to this list on request of greg, so he > > can answer in public. > > > > original mail: > > the questions i have are about linux and hotplug, i dont fully > > understand how it works, and its relationship with udev. > > It's a mess, I agree :) > > > i run gentoo with udev, and then i noticed that hotplug was not used as > > hotplug manager anymore, udevsend is. and then hotplug is not nessecary, > > so i unmerged hotplug and coldplug, because i believed that those bash > > scripts for modprobing modules of devices that you have would now be > > done via udevsend, however it does now... > > Ick, no, don't unmerge hotplug, it's still called by the Gentoo udev > package. It's also still listed as a depandancy, so you did that > against the package builder's wishes... nah. hotplug-base are.. > i have heard that archlinux has some kind of alternative hotplug thing which should be quite good, perhaps i should look into that... btw, if you repond, please cc me, im not on the list ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ 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