Udev without hotplug works well here with kernel 2.6.13. All things keep on working very well : sound, nvidia, tv, cpufreq, usbkey and others ... So, what the problem is ? Before hitting the maintainer, you should give it a try first, shouldn't you ?
Le Dimanche 9 Octobre 2005 12:36, Hendrik Sattler a écrit : > Am Sonntag, 9. Oktober 2005 11:57 schrieb Anders Ellenshøj Andersen: > > Udev in unstable now conflicts with hotplug. From what I can gather udev > > has eaten up all of hotplugs functionallity, but I don't really have a > > clue about what is going on. Since some important KDE stuff depends on > > all this to work, I'd sure like if someone who knows this stuff could > > explain what the h... is going on. > > Sure, by upgrading, you loose all abilities to run linux-2.4.xx with > hotplug functionality. You also agree to not run a linux kernel <2.6.12 > because that won't work, too. Actually, you should run linux kernel 2.6.14 > or higher. I know, doesn't exist, yet but that seems to be the attitude of > the udev maintainer. > Obviously, he lives in a perfect world, where all external kernel modules > adapt to kernel changes very fast. > > Obviously, some DDs (e.g. the udev maintainer) gave up to make it possible > to have more than one major kernel version installed (and still be able to > run it properly). > > The udev package somewhat digs its own hole and I am glad that I did not > change to udev. The udev package could also ask if you want to use hotplug > or udev's coldplug, does it? (Can't tell because I don't have it > installed). > > HS
