/sbin/udevstart : I miss something [LWN.net]

/sbin/udevstart : I miss something

Posted Feb 24, 2005 9:42 UTC (Thu) by danielos (subscriber, #6053)
Parent article: Recent Changes to /sbin/hotplug

With the release of the 050 release of udev, if /sbin/udevstart is the kernel hotplug program (it can be changed by modifying the value of the /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug file), then it operates like the original /etc/hotplug.d multiplexer program as well as handling all of the udev device node generation.

/etc/hotplug.d/
`-- default
    |-- 10-udev.hotplug -> ../../../sbin/udevsend
    |-- 20-hal.hotplug -> /usr/libexec/hal.hotplug
    `-- default.hotplug

It is ok to have udevsend there?
On Debian could it be managed by debconf ?

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/sbin/udevstart : I miss something

Posted Mar 1, 2005 1:57 UTC (Tue) by gregkh (subscriber, #8) [Link]

> Is it ok to have udevsend there?

Yes, that is how udev works. I catches the hotplug messages and acts on them to add and remove your /dev nodes.

/sbin/udevstart : I miss something

Posted Mar 2, 2005 12:39 UTC (Wed) by danielos (subscriber, #6053) [Link]

Well, I tried to use /sbin/udevstart as hotplug multiplexer, udev version 054. It does not create device node and do not load modules.

I just do not understand if udevstart do all work and then works as the hotplug multiplexer and then call udevsend that redo the same work, or if udevsend understand it and stop.