udev - hotplug - hal

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Tue Sep 27 16:55:55 UTC 2005


Barry Marler wrote:

> On 9/27/05, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
>> 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!).
> 
> You can build your own kernerl, config your own module loading, etc.

Of course you can.  That's where the "make your life easier" comes in. :-) 
I used to always compile my own.  Now that I actually have a system that
will run with a stock kernel, I can't be bothered. 
-- 
derek





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