On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 11:27:37PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > L.V.Gandhi wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > They are complementary. The discover process runs at boot time to > load up statically attached hardware. This would typically be things > like PCI network cards, PCI sound cards, and things like that. > > The hotplug process monitors dynamic system events such as USB > devices. For example when a new USB device is found hotplug will load > the drivers needed for that device. Hotplug also interacts with udev > to create the required /dev devices. > > So having all three of discover, hotplug, and udev is a good thing.
The debian sarge installer installs discover1, there is also discover based on libdiscover2. I assume discover is a more modern version than discover1 of the same. Is this right? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
