From: Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: udev: disable mtd_probe?
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 21:37:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1107181733120.2541@myrtle> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1107181640050.10649@waverley.Belkin>
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 22:45, Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu> wrote:
>> Since the new mechanism for enabling/disabling selected components of the
>> udev "extras" was introduced it hasn't been possible to disable mtd_probe,
>> so far as I can see.
>>
>> Could we please have that option, unless there are compelling reasons to the
>> contrary? The MTD stuff drags in a bunch of
>> dependencies.
>
> No problem with the patch or the option [...]
Good, thanks.
> but: Dependencies? A bunch? I don't see any. Not even the rules
> are doing anything, if no mtd devices are present.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but I thought I had to install
the mtd-utils and/or configure MTD support into the kernel.
Certainly, the mtd_probe build bombs out on my system with mtd.h not
found. And if the mtd-utils are needed, they drag in attr and
libacl.
--
Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-18 21:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-18 20:45 udev: disable mtd_probe? Allin Cottrell
2011-07-18 21:10 ` Kay Sievers
2011-07-18 21:17 ` Gabor Z. Papp
2011-07-18 21:19 ` Kay Sievers
2011-07-18 21:22 ` Gabor Z. Papp
2011-07-18 21:37 ` Allin Cottrell [this message]
2011-07-18 21:40 ` Kay Sievers
2011-07-18 21:44 ` Kay Sievers
2011-07-18 21:49 ` Kay Sievers
2011-07-19 16:06 ` Allin Cottrell
2011-07-19 20:06 ` Kay Sievers
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