On 12/5/05, Jan de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Yes, that's correct. Hotplug is obsolete with newer versions of udev.
> The only use for hotplug nowadays is the coldplugging at bootup, which
> we can use hwdetect or hwd for now.

You're very wrong there.

On Archie, I think it was version 0.4.3 or so, we chmod -x'ed hotplug,
figuring we had hwd to to detection. It broke a *lot* of drivers. Any
drivers that needed firmware to be loaded from userspace, eg many
wireless drivers (prism, ipw2x00), as well as many that didnt, such as
a whole host of sound cards (no idea why), didnt work. I hope these
have been accounted for with hwdetect, cause if they aint, that's a
huge broken change thats been implemented.

James Rayner

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