From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 17:11:16 +0000 Subject: Re: recent changes to udev Message-Id: <20051109171116.GA19400@vrfy.org> 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 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 ------------------------------------------------------- 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