On 3/5/07, Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > > On 3/5/07, Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Is the "hotplug" package obsolete? It's not in the current (stable) > >> book, but Chapter 07 mentions the binary /sbin/hotplug. Could this be a > >> left-over? > > > > It is obsolete. In chapter 7 it says that we unset the default uevent > > handler of /sbin/hotplug. > > > Yes, but it is confusing to talk about a binary that shouldn't be there, > and call it a default. I suppose the script unsets the uevent handler > just in case someone put it there (not following the book). Is this > right?
No. /sbin/hotplug is the default set by the kernel. We don't use it, so we have to unset it at boot time. You could patch the kernel to not make this the default, but it seems easier to just set our preference at runtime. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
