Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
So all I need to know: Can I run a 2.6 kernel without hal, udev and hotpt lug being installed, or with these packages being disabled at boot time at least? Please tell me it will work ... :)
I'm not a debian user so i'll talk in general.hal,udev and hotplug are nothing necessary for your system ... surely at least on of them is really usefull :)
HAL: i-ve not understood fully yet what it serves, but AFAIK is something usefull in combination with dbus and gnome-vfs-manager to have a more "user friendly' device management, as automounting , autorun and stuffs like these.
HOTPLUG: in combination with coldplug is used to identify hardware as soon as it is attached and do "thing" about it, as MODPROBING modules,run scripts and so on .
UDEV: i don't i could live without it :) is a replacement for udevfs and has the scope of creating in a dynamic way Device Nodes for your hardware and much more as , for example, map your hardware to other string like "/dev/usb-hd" your external usb disk.
bye P.