Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words
> 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.
>
> I'd recommend udev-060 if you've got linux-2.6.12.x running.
The Release-notes are actually pretty scary. Apparently there was big
changes with udev-059. Just a bit of it.
o udevd listens to netlink events now. The first valid netlink event
will make udevd ignore any message from udevsend that contains a
SEQNUM, to avoid duplicate events. The forked events can be disabled
with:
echo "" > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug
For full support, the broken input-subsytem needs to be fixed, not to
bypass the driver core.
o /etc/dev.d/ + /etc/hotplug.d/ directory multiplexing is completely
removed from udev itself and must be emulated by calling small
helper binaries provided in the extras folder:
make EXTRAS=extras/run_directory/
will build udev_run_devd and udev_run_hotplugd, which can be called
from a rule if needed:
RUN+="/sbin/udev_run_hotplugd"
o As used in the modalias rule, udev supports now textual
substitution placeholder along with the usual format chars. This
needs to be documented, for now it's only visible in
udev_rules_parse.c.
I'm only a user, Matt. Can I bang this straight in on a 2.6.12.1 kernel
without complications? Make && make install?
>
> >Hotplug I can only find as 2004_09_23. Am I on the wrong place?
>
> Nope, that was the last released version :(
>
> >Hotplug-ng seems a hopeful replacement in C
>
> It does indeed, as it's still *very* new, it's not been put in the
> book yet, but it will be going in once it matures a little (I hope).
>
> >What should a guy install these days?
>
> udev & a non-modular kernel work well for me :)
>
I need modules because the hardware is dodgy. That's why this is a brave
experiment for me. The <expletive deleted> thing still won't find the
cdrom or dvd player in LFS-6.0 :-(.
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With best Regards,
Declan Moriarty.
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