From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Udev question
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 17:21:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1152120077.3266.16.camel@pim.off.vrfy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3361.198.89.66.135.1152119322.squirrel@sexorcisto.net>
On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 13:08 -0400, Vallimar wrote:
> Mailing you folks is pretty much my last resort, but since I cannot seem
> to find the information I'm looking for anywhere, I thought I'd give it a
> shot. Essentially, I'm wondering if you might be able to give me a list of
> kernel paramaters necessary to make udev work. I run a fairly customized
> kernel install and I don't want to enable gobs of options that I don't
> need/use. From what I can gather, most places and the documentation itself
> indicates you need proc/tmpfs/pty/sysfs, some older ones say you need
> hotplug, but from looking at the newer udev, that doesn't seem to be the
> case anymore? However, from looking at more info and peeking at the code
> a bit and just from the debug errors I get, it seems it requires some
> uevent/netlink stuff. The only problem I have with that is with the latest
> kernel, there are several netlink options so how am I supposed to know
> which ones I need? Right now I have none of them enabled since I've never
> needed them but I am trying to get a working parallel udev setup to see if
> it would be beneficial for me to switch over to that from a static /dev
> tree. In essence, I'm suggesting that it would be nice for us non-distro
> users if the udev package contained a list of must-be-enabled kernel options
> in order for things to work.
There are no options you can reach, if you don't enable CONFIG_EMBEDDED.
The network stack itself depends on netlink, so you usually can't switch
that off too.
Kay
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-05 17:08 Udev question Vallimar
2006-07-05 17:21 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2006-07-05 23:14 ` Vallimar
2006-07-06 9:48 ` Kay Sievers
2006-07-21 17:58 ` udev question Lukas Hejtmanek
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