Getting rid of hotplug & Co. for 2.6

[Wolfgang Pfeiffer <roto@gmx.net>]

Hotplug and its colleagues: I confess my lowest instincts get mobilised
when thinking on this stuff: I slows down the whole boot process so
much that sometimes I feel like being on a 2.2 kernel.

So all I need to know: Can I run a 2.6 kernel without hal, udev and
hotplug being installed, or with these packages being disabled at boot
time at least?

Please tell me it will work ... :)

Thanks in anticipation

Best Regards
Wolfgang
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