mdev woes

[Luciano Rocha]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 09:28:44PM +0200, Jason Curl wrote:
> Does that mean mdev will be using the new notification mechanism as 
> "/sbin/hotplug" is already deprecated and no longer used by udev?

Are you sure it is deprecated, or is it only that udev moved to netlink?
(It allows more than one listener.)

> I 
> haven't tested this feature yet (still building the filesystem), but I 
> hope it isn't yet out of date. Even though linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net 
> mentions "/sbin/hotplug", SuSE 10.0 and newer distros don't use it. It 
> looks like they're using dbus.

dbus is used for communication from udev to those apps interested in
hotplug events. But udev uses a netlink socket to get those events from
the kernel (if I'm not very mistaken ;).

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lfr
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