udev - hotplug - hal

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Tue Sep 27 13:49:42 UTC 2005


Barry Marler wrote:

> On 9/26/05, john <sorosj at gmail.com> wrote:
>> hi
>> am I wrong, or is it really true I only need one of these: udev - hotplug
>> - hal
>> I have all three running on my system and would be surprised to learn
>> that I only need one
> 
> You can live without hotplug and hal, but they make your life easier.

I suppose - though you either need all your modules compiled into the kernel
or manually entered in /etc/modules (or whatever its current equivalent is
- one reason for keeping hotplug, I can't remember where to do module
overrides anymore!).
-- 
derek





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