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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:54:31
Message-Id: 7573e9640608250250k11c8b74l8535dc27f50775a0@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev by sdoma
1 On 8/25/06, sdoma <sdoma@××××××××.cz> wrote:
2 > Is hotplug still an issue or is it started by bootmisc? If i plug in my
3 > USB stick (yes, I do have USB UHCI, EHCI, OHCI mass storage compiled
4 > into the kernel) I can't mount it.
5
6 The hotplug init script doesn't do anything anymore, it's functions
7 have been taken over by udev. There have been issues on and off of
8 conflicts between udev and the hotplug package, but nothing current
9 that I am aware of.
10
11 You can't mount it....why? Is there no device being created?
12 udevmonitor may help to figure out why...
13
14 > I remember some discussion about hotplug/coldplug and if coldplug makes
15 > sense at all.
16
17 Coldplug is dead and gone, usurped by udev.
18
19 > How do I ensure that devices plugged in while the system is up and
20 > running arise (Emerging hotplug and add it to the default runlevel,
21 > right?)?
22
23 No, just use current versions of the kernel and udev.
24
25 -Richard
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