On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 00:35 +1100, James Rayner wrote: > On 12/5/05, Jan de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yes, that's correct. Hotplug is obsolete with newer versions of udev. > > The only use for hotplug nowadays is the coldplugging at bootup, which > > we can use hwdetect or hwd for now. > > You're very wrong there. > > On Archie, I think it was version 0.4.3 or so, we chmod -x'ed hotplug, > figuring we had hwd to to detection. It broke a *lot* of drivers. Any > drivers that needed firmware to be loaded from userspace, eg many > wireless drivers (prism, ipw2x00), as well as many that didnt, such as > a whole host of sound cards (no idea why), didnt work. I hope these > have been accounted for with hwdetect, cause if they aint, that's a > huge broken change thats been implemented.
udev can also load firmware now (as of 070 or so). Dale _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
