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khazdar

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From: ohio

Registered: 2003-11-06

Posts: 123

hotplug

I was wondering what the hot plug daemon does, and if I should be using it. I use UDEV. Should I be using hotplug too?

-khaz

phrakture

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From: behind you

Registered: 2003-10-29

Posts: 7,879

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Re: hotplug

the hotplug daemon screws things up, that's what it does!

heh, in all seriousness, if you're using udev, you won't need the daemon.  hotplug is basically a device scanner that adds modules and things like that when you plug in new devices.  udev does this as well, and actually uses hotplug internally.

but the hotplug daemon is the devil - it always gets modules wrong and spams you with like 30 unused modules just for fun

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xerxes2

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From: Malmoe, Sweden

Registered: 2004-04-23

Posts: 1,249

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Re: hotplug

what phrakture means is that when you put hotplug in the daemons array it scans your computer during bootup.
otherwise is the kernel itself running /sbin/hotplug when a usb device is plugged in and udev mounts it,

if you know your modules there is no need for running it in the daemons array,

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khazdar

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From: ohio

Registered: 2003-11-06

Posts: 123

Re: hotplug

cool. thanks for the info.