Theo Schmidt wrote: > Derek Broughton schrieb: >> Bellegarde Cedric wrote: >>> Roman Kreisel wrote: > ... >>>>And no, afaik, hotplug is _not_ obsolete. > ... >>>hotplug is obsolete, udev is now the good way to do (and not hal): > > Oh great, even the experts disagree...
Oooh, I hope he's not talking about me... :-) > I gleaned my clip on "obsolete > hotplug" from an article about SuSE 10.0 in LinuxUser (German magazine). > > ... >>>udev, in mandriva(2006), now do hotplug job. >>> >> >> I can't see how. Hotplug inserts the modules required by a device - I >> see >> nothing in udev that's going to do that. hal is a _very_ good way to >> enable automounting (amongst other things) - it doesn't mount anything, >> but then neither does udev. > > hal seems to depend on udev, but I still havn't got a clue what all > these components *really* do. I think we're all just fumbling in the dark these days, as there isn't enough documentation around. I have a pretty good clue about hotplug - and the simplest explanation is that it notes the insertion of hotpluggable hardware (generally PC-card and USB) and installs the appropriate modules to support it (running custom scripts if necessary). I've got less knowledge of udev, but it builds the /dev database and makes all the necessary nodes with appropriate permissions and synonyms. I don't have a clue what HAL & DBUS do, but if they aren't integral to both of these yet, they will be. They are integral to pmount - which is the (an?) other part of the story. -- derek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
