From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dennis Veatch Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 17:41:44 +0000 Subject: Re: recent changes to udev Message-Id: <200511091241.44858.dveatch@woh.rr.com> List-Id: References: <20051108184308.GB7254@vrfy.org> In-Reply-To: <20051108184308.GB7254@vrfy.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 09 November 2005 12:11, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 08:31:41AM -0500, Dennis Veatch wrote: > > On Tuesday 08 November 2005 13:43, Kay Sievers wrote: > > > Kernel 2.6.15 will have a new input layer with integrates > > > proper with the driver core. This will make it possible to > > > feed udev by netlink only. We already use netlink for a > > > while now and discard the /sbin/hotplug messages. udev 074 > > > depends entirely on netlink and will not work without it. > > > For older kernels udevsend can still pass the "input" > > > events to udevd. > > > > Just a quick question about netlink. Are you referring to the > > CONFIG_NETFILTER=y in the kernel config? > > No, it's "netlink", not "netfilter". Netlink is always in, when you > have networking. > > Kay > > Opps pasted the wrong thing. So there is no specific CONFIG_NETLINK in the kernel .config. I ask cause I see in 2.6.14, CONFIG_NETFILTER_NETLINK. I take it that's not the same. -- You can tuna piano but you can't tune a fish. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ 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