From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: udev - kill udevd on install
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 22:26:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040301222635.GC10851@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040228033339.GB32032@vrfy.org>
On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 01:48:57PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 07:50, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 04:33:39AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > > We want to kill udevd after installing a new version, cause the event
> > > contains a magic with the version number of udev.
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > > Kay
> >
> > > === Makefile 1.122 vs edited ==> > > --- 1.122/Makefile Sat Feb 28 02:59:43 2004
> > > +++ edited/Makefile Sat Feb 28 04:25:36 2004
> > > @@ -373,10 +373,12 @@
> > > $(INSTALL_DATA) -D udev.8 $(DESTDIR)$(mandir)/man8/udev.8
> > > $(INSTALL_DATA) -D udevinfo.8 $(DESTDIR)$(mandir)/man8/udevinfo.8
> > > $(INSTALL_DATA) -D udevd.8 $(DESTDIR)$(mandir)/man8/udevd.8
> > > - - ln -f -s ./udevd.8 $(DESTDIR)$(mandir)/man8/udevsend.8
> > > - - rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(hotplugdir)/$(ROOT).hotplug
> >
> > Why take away this line? It's needed if the symlink is set up "wrong"
> > (like pointing to udev instead of udevsend like old systems would
> > have...)
>
> ..., cause it's not needed. The "-f" of the following line should be
> enough to replace any already existing link:
>
> - ln -f -s $(sbindir)/$(SENDER) $(DESTDIR)$(hotplugdir)/$(ROOT).hotplug
Hm, ok, I can't remember why I didn't realize that a while ago...
Oh well, applied, thanks.
greg k-h
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-01 22:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-28 3:33 udev - kill udevd on install Kay Sievers
2004-02-28 6:50 ` Greg KH
2004-02-28 12:48 ` Kay Sievers
2004-03-01 22:26 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-03-18 14:40 ` Harald Hoyer
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