Re: [Clfs-dev] Explanatory text about udev/hotplug needs updating

2006-07-21 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 7/21/06, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: However, I'll change the link to the sysfs paper. Probably is more relevant to the current setup anyway. Done in r7688. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: Se

Re: [Clfs-dev] Explanatory text about udev/hotplug needs updating

2006-07-21 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 7/21/06, Bryan Kadzban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There are also some issues with the correctness of the information in the 2002 slideshow. He's talking a lot about driverfs, which is gone now, and there's a slide or two that talks about /sbin/hotplug, which is also gone now. Perhaps the 20

Re: [Clfs-dev] Explanatory text about udev/hotplug needs updating

2006-07-21 Thread Bryan Kadzban
I tried to send this once before, but it got bounced because I'm in the "auto-*whitelist*", and apparently that's now assigned *positive* 5.5 points out of 5 in the SpamAssassin rules. Trying to resend, hope this works... Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 7/18/06, Bryan Kadzban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [Clfs-dev] Explanatory text about udev/hotplug needs updating

2006-07-21 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 7/18/06, Bryan Kadzban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There are other versions of this info (and related stuff) scattered around in .../people/mochel/doc -- for instance: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mochel/doc/talks/device-model-ols.sxi http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/pe

Re: [Clfs-dev] Explanatory text about udev/hotplug needs updating

2006-07-18 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Dan Nicholson wrote: > Looks like the files on planetmirror are gone. The best I could do > was find a tarball with tex sources, a generated ps file, and a > Makefile for generating pdf/ps. > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mochel/doc/lca/ > > Potentially, this could work, too. It

Re: [Clfs-dev] Explanatory text about udev/hotplug needs updating

2006-07-18 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 7/18/06, Chris Staub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: read the page, it looks good, except for that last link in the "Useful Reading" section. Looks like the files on planetmirror are gone. The best I could do was find a tarball with tex sources, a generated ps file, and a Makefile for generating

Re: [Clfs-dev] Explanatory text about udev/hotplug needs updating

2006-07-18 Thread Chris Staub
Dan Nicholson wrote: Hotplug is a concept as much as it was the binary /sbin/hotplug. Udev still handles the action of dynamically created devices. The only times hotplug is mentioned on the LFS page are that the udev bootscript replaces /sbin/hotplug as the uevent handler. I haven't checked that

Re: [Clfs-dev] Explanatory text about udev/hotplug needs updating

2006-07-18 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 7/18/06, Chris Staub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Currently, the book still mentions the hotplug package in its explanations of how udev works, particularly in the "Device/Module Handling" page and the kernel build page. Unfortunately, I don't know much about how Udev works...should modification