Seeking Remedy for udev Confusion

[Collins Richey]

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.

HTH,

--
Collins Richey
      Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code ... If you write
      the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not
      smart enough to debug it.
             -Brian Kernighan