James Rayner schrieb: > 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.
hotplug cared about firmware loading and stuff, but with the new version, udev handles all this and therefore obsoletes hotplug. > I hope these > have been accounted for with hwdetect, cause if they aint, that's a > huge broken change thats been implemented. hwdetect has nothing to do with this, hwdetect only executes modprobe. On my laptop, I installed testing udev+pcmciautils yesterday and these are the results: - udev now sets up my 16bit pcmcia ethernet card correctly, didn't work without pcmcia-cs before. (32bit cardbus cards work anyway, as they are treated like pci) - no annoying messages from bad hotplug scripts any more - it is now much easier to handle custom hotplug events, you just create a RUN+= udev rule in a custom.rules file, no need to modify stupid hotplug scripts and your customized stuff isn't broken after an update I didn't test firmware loading so far, but I can try my old wlan card and report if it worked. So, in short, this whole udev/pcmciautils obsoletes hotplug and pcmcia-cs is a great improvement to arch regarding simplicity and flexibility. _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
