On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 07:53:39PM +0200, Oliver Kiddle wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > > > Reading various FAQs etc on the web, it seems clear that udev can work > > > fine without hotplug. > > > > Huh? That is not true. Please point me at those faqs. The kernel > > _MUST_ support hotplug for udev to work properly. > > I'm talking about the hotplug scripts not CONFIG_HOTPLUG in the linux > kernel. So in particular, I meant the Debian hotplug package. Sorry for > not being clear. > > See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml > > Quoting from that: > udev will install hotplug-base as one of it's dependencies. You do not > need to install hotplug unless you want your modules automatically > loaded when you plug devices in. hotplug also handles the automated > bringup of network devices and firmware downloading. > > That's not the only FAQ I've seen. If you want, I can dig out more.
hotplug-base is NOT the hotplug/coldplug startup stuff. You want that file. Why would you not? > It is also annoying because hotplug depends on usbutils and my machine > doesn't even have USB. The gentoo hotplug-base package doesn't depend on it :) Sounds like you need to prod the debian people to also fix this. thanks, greg k-h -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
