Seeking Remedy for udev Confusion

[Kurt Wall]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 07:44:11PM -0700, Collins Richey took 31 lines to write:
> On 11/28/05, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
> > Hi, list,
> >
> > I'll readily concede that I'm not always the brightest light bulb in
> > the chandelier, so can y'all recommend your favorite udev
> > demystification documents so I can try to get my head around it? My
> > immediate desire is to have my SD cards recognized and mounted
> > automatically (on Slamd64, a 64-bit Slackware), but my ultimate desire
> > is to understand how to make udev DTRT, or perhaps simply to grasp what
> > The Right Thing (c) is.
> >
> 
> I don't have the answer. The big thing with udev, from what I
> remember, is that they ripped out the code that loads modules from the
> old approaches, and you need something like hotplug (or ????) in
> conjunction with udev to get the behavior you are looking for.

I think HAL and hotplug play together to DTRT. Another piece o' the
puzzle clicks into place.

> HTH,

It does.

Kurt
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