On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 03:13:45PM +0200, Oliver Kiddle wrote: > Package: udev > Version: 0.056-2 > Severity: wishlist > > > Reading various FAQs etc on the web, it seems clear that udev can work > fine without hotplug.
Huh? That is not true. Please point me at those faqs. The kernel _MUST_ support hotplug for udev to work properly. > It also seems that other distributions allow udev to be used without > hotplug. Which distros? > I really don't want to use hotplug: it takes ages at bootup, loads > modules for hardware I very rarely use and doesn't do anything useful > (any modules I want loaded at boot are compiled in). I'd very much > appreciate it if the udev package only recommended hotplug and made it > easy to use it without hotplug. Ah, you mean "coldplug", right? The act of loading modules at boot time based on scanning the sysfs tree? Yeah, no other distro recommends you use that, except Debian :) greg k-h -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
