Re: [coLinux-users] Enable config_hotplug in kernel .config

[George P B. <geo...@gm...>]

On 9/9/06, Ron Helzer <he...@gm...> wrote:
> I enabled config_hotplug and the kernel compiled and worked fine, but it
> didn't solve my problem of no /dev/net/tun device file upon modprobing the
> tun module.  I am not a hotplug or udev guru, I'm a devfs kind of guy, so I
> may be doing something else wrong.  I decided once I was able to customize
> the coLinux kernel, instead of modular tun and hotplug nonsence I would just
> make tun part of the kernel and that fixed it for good.

I'm no good with udev either. Sorry!  I wasn't even ever good at
devfs...  I tend to manually create and maintain my /dev
directories...  I know... I know...  For me it works and it's a big
deal.

> I would like to know if what I was attempting with hotplug is possible in
> coLinux and where I went wrong.  If I find the time, I'll boot a test
> instance and look into it more fully.

I'm not 100%, but I believe we disabled it is because with it enabled,
some distros (Fedora?, Ubuntu? mabye) would crash/die on boot-up
because they where trying to access hardware directly with hotplug,
which is always a bad thing in coLinux.  I'll play with hotplug
enabled a default and a few distros and see what comes of it.

-- 
George