On Thursday 02 April 2009 13:28:27 Anselm Lingnau wrote: > As Jorge correctly remarks, there used to be a system called »hotplug« > which was basically a precursor of udev. I don't recall a »coldplug« > subsystem.
My understanding is that the original "hotplug" - linux- hotplug.sourceforge.net - had a portion that would load modules at boot time from an init.d script. This is conceptually different from hotpluging transient devices so earned itself the nickname "coldplug" To this day Gentoo still maintains and ships a hotplug and coldplug package. Coldplug is long since dead, gone and buried for general use so presumably it's still around only for those folk still running 2.4 and early 2.6 systems. On my box, hotplug is actually only required for loading the iwl3945 firmware. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
