From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:48:01 +0000 Subject: Re: udev and hotplug Message-Id: <1160657281.12323.8.camel@pim.off.vrfy.org> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 21:06 +1000, Gioele Barabucci wrote: > On Wednesday 11 October 2006 19:28, Kay Sievers wrote: > > > "cat /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug" shows "/sbin/hotplug". But there is > > > no file as "/sbin/hotplug". > > > > That's good not to have /sbin/hotplug. Even when there is no program to > > fork anymore, you should disable the forking by the kernel, by setting > > it to "". > Will there be a kernel option to disable the creation > of /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug altogether? There is nothing planned. We could have an option that allows us to set the default value in the kernel config, which could be an empty string instead of /sbin/hotplug then. For now, we just do: echo > /sys/kernel/uevent_helper Kay ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0709&bid&3057&dat1642 _______________________________________________ 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