From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Allin Cottrell Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 21:37:50 +0000 Subject: Re: udev: disable mtd_probe? Message-Id: 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 On Mon, 18 Jul 2011, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 22:45, Allin Cottrell 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