From: Brian Sammon <linux-hotplug-list@brisammon.fastmail.fm>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Do I want to use udev?
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 20:47:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1EuFWw-00065W-GO@mail.sourceforge.net> (raw)
I'm trying to figure out if I should be using udev, and if so, how.
I'm upgrading to a recent 2.6 kernel, and various documentation says that udev
is required, but I'm not sure.
I'm not interested in having a dynamic /dev filesystem (for the moment); a
static /dev filesystem has served me just fine up to this point, and I think
it will continue to work for a little while longer.
So that leaves me with the other hotplug-related functionality, automatic
driver loading. I can't figure out if, or how, udev does that. In
particular, 99% of the hotplugging I do is USB devices, and I can't find any
file in my (Debian) udev package that configures which USB drivers get loaded
for which USB devices.
This leads me to wonder-- can I disable/uninstall udev altogether, or just
disable the dynamic /dev filesystem and still have automatic USB driver
loading?
If part/all of my problem is debian specific, I'd still appreciate general
information, such as how it should be done, or information about how this
works on your system.
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next reply other threads:[~2006-01-04 20:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-04 20:47 Brian Sammon [this message]
2006-01-04 21:21 ` Do I want to use udev? Greg KH
2006-01-04 22:56 ` Brian Sammon
2006-01-04 23:06 ` Aras Vaichas
2006-01-04 23:58 ` Greg KH
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