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

[Anders E. C \(KI/EAB\) <and...@er...>]

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>=20
> On 9/9/06, Ron Helzer <he...@gm...> wrote:
> > I enabled config_hotplug and the kernel compiled and worked=20
> fine, but it
> > didn't solve my problem of no /dev/net/tun device file upon=20
> modprobing the
> > tun module.  I am not a hotplug or udev guru, I'm a devfs=20
> kind of guy, so I
> > may be doing something else wrong.  I decided once I was=20
> able to customize
> > the coLinux kernel, instead of modular tun and hotplug=20
> nonsence I would just
> > make tun part of the kernel and that fixed it for good.
>=20
> 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.
>=20

I can attest that hotplug is needed (in my experience) with >2.6.15
kernels to get any signals from the kernel to the udev daemon
on startup. Otherwise your udev managed /dev ends up with only a
handfull of entries.=20

/Anders