Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Richard A Downing wrote:
I used to take the view (before I retired) that if: you found the right
expert; were convinced they understood the problem; and then took their
advice - that you didn't need to fully understand the topic yourself -
indeed there were more complicated things about than one person could
understand completely. Although I'm minded to trust Alex on this,
perhaps it needs just a little more understanding on my part than usual.
<philosophy>
But sometimes you want to *be* the expert. It can be an itch that you
need to scratch. Basically that is what {,B}LFS is all about...
learning more than "necessary". To me, always learning new things is
essential. Having the source code and the mailing lists and the net in
general makes is possible to drill down until the itch is satisfied.
</philosophy>
Apologies for the massive quoting here, but I'd just like to add that
I'm in complete agreement with Richard and Bruce here. I am in awe of
Alexander's understanding of all things udev, hotplug, kernel and module
related. That though, makes it all the more frustrating when I don't
understand the issues myself. Like Andrew Benton mentioned, I too have
avoided all this by simply compiling everything into the kernel, thus
I've never experienced any of the module related bugs others are
currently suffering.
Whilst the desire to learn this stuff properly is still strong, up until
now I have had no *personal* motivation to fix the module related bugs
in LFS. Now that it's been more or less drilled into me that upstream
really isn't in any fit state to have hotplug removed from the setup,
I'll have to bite the bullet and see to getting all the module
hotplugging related bugs sorted out *then redo it all again* once we can
ceremoniously see the back of the hotplug package once and for all!
Regards,
Matt.
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