Grant wrote: >>hotplug, afaik, refers to not only the practice of swapping SCSI drives on >>the fly in busy servers but as well as anything USB related, mounting of >>drives, and the like. >>Assuming you won't need to plug in a USB drive all of the sudden and you >>keep a spotless fstab and have a sole eth connection, hotplug might in fact >>be somewhat useless to you. >>I switched to udev ages ago however; find out if it's really ncessary. >>In the end of the day however, it's not like it's a very heavy process for >>your machine. > > > Ok, does anyone run a udev system without hotplug and coldplug? > > - Grant >
udev will bring anything it needs as dependencies (sys-apps/hotplug-base). No need to emerge hotplug or coldplug unless you want to. I don't even use coldplug on my desktop system because I know what hardware I have and coldplug is only useful at boot time. Other software handles runtime. Regards, Petteri
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