Current status of this bug is that, for 2.6 installs, d-i uses udev and udev is also used on the installed system. hotplug is no longer used. discover1 is still however installed by hw-detect, since X still uses it. Note that tasksel will also now take care of installing discover1 before the desktop task is installed. We could probably thus close this bug by making hw-detect stop installing discover for 2.6 kernels. Would this be safe? Probably, since discover runs after udev at boot and all modules are probably loaded before it runs, and as noted if it disagreed with the kernel about a module, the 2.6 kernel will refuse to load it. So the system's behavior should be unchanged whether discover1 is installed or not, with the exception of X's remaining use of it for hardware detection. -- see shy jo
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