Seeking Remedy for udev Confusion

[Kurt Wall]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 04:51:53PM -0500, Douglas J Hunley took 65 lines to write:
> Kurt Wall stated:
> > 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.
> 
> Which udev? As of udev 074, hotplug isn't needed and there's a new dir 
> structure in /lib (but this require 2.6.15). I run linux from scratch, and 
> their udev stuff is pretty tight and keeps current w/ upstream. I'd recommend 
> going to look at LFS 6.1.1 which came out today, check their boot scripts, 
> and then ping me as I have a thread talking about how shit changes in 074 and 
> 076 (gotta love udev!)

Slamd64 comes with udev-064. But, I've upgraded to the du jour 2.6.15-mumble
kernel to fix some problems with the system clock on my particular AMD64
chipset (nasty -- http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3927). 

Good tips, Doug. I'll be taking a look.

Kurt
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