Declan Moriarty wrote:
Those who keep on top of developments please point me.
LFS-6.0 installed udev-030; there is udev-060 out there.
Hotplug I can only find as 2004_09_23. Am I on the wrong place?
Hotplug-ng seems a hopeful replacement in C
What should a guy install these days?
I was in this quandary just this last weekend. LFS-6.1-pre1 (pre2 is
just out) used udev-058 and hotplug-2004_09_23. I was advised on that
mailing list (udev-059 was out and 060 was expected) to use udev-058
with the hotplug because testing on the later udev's was not complete.
I installed those along with the latest bootscripts (I think that was
3.3.2, but it was the latest edition) and I have incurred no problems.
Modular or non-modular kernels are a matter of personal tastes and
goals--Archaic mentioned this in his post to this thread. One thing for
which I found it necessary to have module support was "user space"
drivers. The Hewlett-Packard driver package hplip is such a driver. I
also think that SANE might fall into that category as well, but I'm not
sure.
I'm not really limited by memory so I've not every really considere
"overhead." But, if I need module loading and unloading for a few
drivers, then I guess it doesn't really matter how many or which drivers
I have compiled as modules. EXCEPT for the caveat in LFS that talks
about compiling drivers into the kernel because the udev in LFS wasn't
all that great. However, I think that has changed.
Dan
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