Re: Automounting experiments
Theo Schmidt wrote:
> Derek Broughton schrieb:
>> Bellegarde Cedric wrote:
>>> Roman Kreisel wrote:
> ...
>>>>And no, afaik, hotplug is _not_ obsolete.
> ...
>>>hotplug is obsolete, udev is now the good way to do (and not hal):
>
> Oh great, even the experts disagree...
Oooh, I hope he's not talking about me... :-)
> I gleaned my clip on "obsolete
> hotplug" from an article about SuSE 10.0 in LinuxUser (German magazine).
>
> ...
>>>udev, in mandriva(2006), now do hotplug job.
>>>
>>
>> I can't see how. Hotplug inserts the modules required by a device - I
>> see
>> nothing in udev that's going to do that. hal is a _very_ good way to
>> enable automounting (amongst other things) - it doesn't mount anything,
>> but then neither does udev.
>
> hal seems to depend on udev, but I still havn't got a clue what all
> these components *really* do.
I think we're all just fumbling in the dark these days, as there isn't
enough documentation around. I have a pretty good clue about hotplug - and
the simplest explanation is that it notes the insertion of hotpluggable
hardware (generally PC-card and USB) and installs the appropriate modules
to support it (running custom scripts if necessary). I've got less
knowledge of udev, but it builds the /dev database and makes all the
necessary nodes with appropriate permissions and synonyms. I don't have a
clue what HAL & DBUS do, but if they aren't integral to both of these yet,
they will be. They are integral to pmount - which is the (an?) other part
of the story.
--
derek
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