From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hannes Reinecke Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 13:23:49 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] use uevents in udevd Message-Id: <41E7C7E5.1070109@suse.de> List-Id: References: <41E79D7A.2060607@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <41E79D7A.2060607@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jan 14, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > > >>Well, the main point of the udevd patch is that it's backwards >>compatible. So it'll start regardless whether uevent sockets are >>available or not. > > But I did understand that you have to start it with -d to use uevents, > so where is the compatibility? > You only need to start it with '-d' if the udevd is not started by other means (eg. udevsend). udevd will read from netlink sockets if they are available, '-d' doesn't affect that. Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke hare@suse.de SuSE Linux AG S390 & zSeries Maxfeldstraße 5 +49 911 74053 688 90409 Nürnberg http://www.suse.de ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ 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