[Astlinux-users] udev vs. hotplug

[Kristian K. <kri...@gm...>]

Hello everyone,

  Darrick recently brought up a good point...  Hotplugging firmware
for devices (/lib/firmware).  I've been looking into this myself and I
have determined that the best route would be to add the full
linux-hotplug package.  This really isn't that big of a deal, the size
increase is minimal because it's really just a bunch of shell scripts.
 It ads a level of complexity that I would otherwise not have, but
that's why it would be run-time optional.

  However, looking at hotplug made me think about the entire
management of devices, firmware, etc.  Hotplug has been succeeded in
most 2.6-based distributions by udev for complete management of
devices, device nodes, and firmware.

  I'd rather not implement udev at this stage.  While it seems to be
much more reliable than devfs+hotplug, it still doesn't seem as simple
or reliable as static device nodes.

  Then again maybe I'm wrong.  What do you think?  Should we start
with hotplug as an option and move to udev later?  Or is udev worth a
shot now?

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Kristian Kielhofner