From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brian Sammon Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 20:47:06 +0000 Subject: Do I want to use udev? Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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. ------------------------------------------------------- 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