> >>hotplug, afaik, refers to not only the practice of swapping SCSI drives on > >>the fly in busy servers but as well as anything USB related, mounting of > >>drives, and the like. > >>Assuming you won't need to plug in a USB drive all of the sudden and you > >>keep a spotless fstab and have a sole eth connection, hotplug might in fact > >>be somewhat useless to you. > >>I switched to udev ages ago however; find out if it's really ncessary. > >>In the end of the day however, it's not like it's a very heavy process for > >>your machine. > > > > > > Ok, does anyone run a udev system without hotplug and coldplug? > > > > - Grant > > > > udev will bring anything it needs as dependencies > (sys-apps/hotplug-base). No need to emerge hotplug or coldplug unless > you want to. I don't even use coldplug on my desktop system because I > know what hardware I have and coldplug is only useful at boot time. > Other software handles runtime. > > Regards, > Petteri
I'm a bit confused. udev does emerge hotplug-base as a dependency. But as far as hotplug itself, this document: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml says: "You do not need to install hotplug unless you want your modules automatically loaded when you plug devices in. hotplug also handles the automated bringup of network devices and firmware downloading." and about coldplug: "If you want modules loaded for devices that have been plugged in before you boot, use the coldplug package. Don't forget to add coldplug to the boot runlevel." I'm just trying to figure out what I need for my laptop and for my server. I'd rather not have useless stuff on my systems, but I don't want anything to break either. Also, should hotplug be added to the default runlevel? The doc doesn't mention it although it does say to add coldplug to the boot runlevel. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
