From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 23:58:42 +0000 Subject: Re: Do I want to use udev? Message-Id: <20060104235842.GB16225@kroah.com> 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, Jan 04, 2006 at 05:56:37PM -0500, Brian Sammon wrote: > > But if that's all that you want to have happen, stick with the old > > hotplug package, it still works just fine. Why would you want to use > > udev if you don't care about persistant names and other good stuff it > > provides? > > That's a good question. Debian says that recent 2.6 kernel packages "require" > udev. That's a Debian issue, 2.6 kernels do not require this. > Based on that, and the fact that recent kernels have a udev line in > the "Current Minimal Requirements" section of Documentation/Changes, I > (wrongly, it seems) inferred that something had changed in recent > (kernel.org) kernel sources that made them incompatible with hotplug. No, not at all, that's there to show the version of udev that you need to use, if you want to use it. Older versions will not work with that specific kernel version. > Since I often compile my own kernel, I suppose I don't have to obey > debian kernel policies too closely. Heh, if at all :) > Considering my lack of interest in dynamic /dev filesystem support, which of > hotplug > hotplug-ng > udev > would people here recommend I use? Just plain hotplug will probably work for you, if all you want is the automatic module loading. hotplug-ng is a dead project, it was replaced with a single udev rule (that one previously mentioned), so don't use it. > I notice that there hasn't been a new hotplug release in over a year. Is it > unmaintained, or has it simply not needed updating? Pretty much both. I have a bunch of patches floating around that the last release needs, but as distros are moving away from it, I'm loath to do a new release. But maybe I need to flush out the pending stuff, and mark it "depreciated"... thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ 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