Re: linux hotplug/hotplug-ng

[Kasper Sandberg <postmaster@metanurb.dk>]

On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 11:20 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
<snip>
> 
> Yes, as I said above, hotplug-ng is obsolete, you can do everything it
> did with just one udev rule :)
> 
> Anyway, here's how things are shaking themselves out:
> 
> udev will replace hotplug and hotplug-ng entirely.  It almost does this
> already today in the Gentoo tree, but I need to spend a bit more time to
> tweak things properly to get it completly there.  To do that we will
> just rely on the hotplug netlink messages coming out of the kernel and
> set /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug to NULL.  udev will handle all of these
> messages, and shuttle them off to their proper places if needed.
> Combine udev with HAL and you pretty much have the full functionality of
> the old hotplug package, with lots of extra goodies added (speed,
> persistant naming, desktop notification, etc.)
> 
> An example of a distro that does all of this today is SuSE 10, you can
> take a look at it in the opensuse download.  Kay is the one who got this
> all working properly, not me.
> 
> Does this help out any?  
> 
yes, allthough i dont understand fully how udev can do this, except if
it catches the hotplug messages from the kernel..

your idea seems very good, and i would like to help.. if you are
interrested in me helping, you are welcome to msg me on irc(redeeman) or
mail me..

> So, thanks for the hotplug-ng ebuild, but it's not going to be necessary
> anymore.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
> 



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