Re: discover and hotplug must be able to co-exists

2004-10-22 Thread Brian May
> "Petter" == Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Petter> At least it sounds like a good idea to have such option. Petter> The work is done in the init.d-script. I'm sure patches Petter> to make it optional to load kernel modules at boot time Petter> are welcome. :

Re: discover and hotplug must be able to co-exists (was Re: discover or alsa?)

2004-10-21 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Marco d'Itri] > discover cannot load hotplugged devices, so to me it looks like a good > idea to use the same program to do both. Reliably reproducible bugs are > better than inconsistent behaviour. :-) I'm not really interested in participating in that discussion. Anyway, if you make a patch, p

Re: discover and hotplug must be able to co-exists (was Re: discover or alsa?)

2004-10-21 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 21, Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure if it should be off by default. But that is a different > discussion. :) discover cannot load hotplugged devices, so to me it looks like a good idea to use the same program to do both. Reliably reproducible bugs are better t

Re: discover and hotplug must be able to co-exists (was Re: discover or alsa?)

2004-10-21 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Marco d'Itri] > Hotplug does not know about X drivers and is not supposed to. Right. That is what I suspected. So it can not replace discover, kudzy, or any of the other packages capable of providing X driver info. > I think that the correct solution is to ship discover with > autoloading of U

Re: discover and hotplug must be able to co-exists (was Re: discover or alsa?)

2004-10-21 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 21, A Mennucc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unless someone may go and rewrite xserver-xfree86 to suggest 'hotplug | > discover', and use any of the two. (hotplug has a much wider list of Hotplug does not know about X drivers and is not supposed to. I think that the correct solution is to

Re: discover and hotplug must be able to co-exists (was Re: discover or alsa?)

2004-10-21 Thread A Mennucc
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: I agree that hotplug and discover must be able to co-exist on a system. And I believe they mostly do, as I have both installed. :) [A Mennucc] Unless someone may go and rewrite xserver-xfree86 to suggest 'hotplug | discover', and use any of the two. (hotplug has a muc

Re: discover and hotplug must be able to co-exists (was Re: discover or alsa?)

2004-10-21 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 09:52:10AM +0200, A Mennucc wrote: > so, on a typical install of Debian, it is quite possible that discover > and hotplug are installed at the same time. It's more than quite possible, it's what you get after installing sarge, except if it changed since the snapshot I trie

Re: discover and hotplug must be able to co-exists (was Re: discover or alsa?)

2004-10-21 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
I agree that hotplug and discover must be able to co-exist on a system. And I believe they mostly do, as I have both installed. :) [A Mennucc] > Unless someone may go and rewrite xserver-xfree86 to suggest > 'hotplug | discover', and use any of the two. (hotplug has a much > wider list of rdepend

discover and hotplug must be able to co-exists (was Re: discover or alsa?)

2004-10-21 Thread A Mennucc
hi for as much as I loved the religion war of people-liking-discover against p-l-hotplug, (and then of p-l-udev vs p-l-devf vs p-l-/dev ), I think nobody stated the most important point: discover and hotplug must be able to co-exists. The reason is in the dependencies: indeed xserver