Dan Nicholson schreef:
On 5/22/06, Warren Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've noticed that a lot of emails about DBUS and HAL are passing by
lately.
(Currrently I have udev as well as hotplug working for me.)
I picked up that HAL and DBUS are great for detecting hotpluggable
media, creating a desktop icon, mounting them as the device that they
are and such. Basically great stuff.
But are these two technologies actually going to replace the udev and
hotplug cooperation, or at least hotplug?
They all work together, actually.
* Udev and hotplug work at a low level. Udev listens for events
created by the kernel when new hardware is added. Then it creates
nodes, loads drivers, etc. Hotplug was needed to do this on the fly,
but now udev can do this all by itself. So, hotplug is obsolete.
Thanks for the information. However, on HLFS20060122 hotplug was not as
obsolete as I hoped it would be. At first I lacked my networkcard, due
to the missing hotplug script that is linked to in the udev script 25-core.
I thought I was smart by overwriting these old udev rules by installing
the newer udev-update-branch scripts. Now I can't even boot. /dev/hda2
can not be created. Snicker. (laugh at my haste at your leisure)
O well, live and learn they say.
Warren
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