From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Smith Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 10:41:29 +0000 Subject: Re: Hotplug and udev - a question Message-Id: <877j6alwva.fsf@bigfoot.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 >>>>> "John" = John Que writes: John> Hello, I saw that in the last versions of udev, hotplug is John> deprecated. Configuring of adding devices is done through John> udev rules. Can anybody say in a few sentences why was this John> change done? What are the advantages of conifguring with John> udev rules over using hotplug ? John> Best Regards, John John, Greg KH wrote an article that summarizes things nicely about a year ago: http://lwn.net/Articles/123932/ Beating a drum from another post of mine that hasn't seen much response, I hope that the documentation for building a bootable kernel with all this udev goodness catches up. It's rather mysterious at the moment. Best, Chris ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 _______________________________________________ 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