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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] hotplug in runlevel?
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 18:57:40
Message-Id: 7573e9640609011150o75c7c571x8bb3ffe7eacd1018@mail.gmail.com
1 On 9/1/06, Anthony E. Caudel <acaudel@×××××.com> wrote:
2 >
3 > Can hotplug then be unmerged?
4
5 This is Gentoo. You can do anything you want. ;-)
6
7 But it probably isn't a good idea, as the hotplug scripts are still
8 used for...well....various things. For example, setting the
9 permissions on USB scanners when they are plugged in.
10
11 However, there is starting to become quite a bit of overlap (and
12 occasional conflicts) between udev and hotplug, so I expect that
13 eventually most of the hotplug functionality will just get absorbed
14 into udev.
15
16 -Richard
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