From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] uevent_helper on kernel 3.16.5-gentoo
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 13:06:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201410241306.03183.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141024124714.319e4ec1@hactar.digimed.co.uk>
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On Friday 24 Oct 2014 12:47:14 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Oct 2014 12:36:44 +0100, Mick wrote:
> > I understand that udev needs or used to need uevent_helper, but I am
> > not clear if I should or should not enable this module in a new kernel
> > I'm rolling. Can you please advise:
> >
> >
> > CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER:
[snip ...]
> It's a legacy setting, introduced so you can turn off this feature.
> Presumably it defaults to Y for compatibility but I've been following the
> advice and running without it for some time now - on desktops and servers.
Thanks Neil, I didn't want to end up with failing to boot. Thanks again for a
quick response.
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Regards,
Mick
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-24 11:36 [gentoo-user] uevent_helper on kernel 3.16.5-gentoo Mick
2014-10-24 11:47 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-10-24 12:06 ` Mick [this message]
2014-10-24 14:13 ` Douglas J Hunley
2014-10-24 14:44 ` Mick
2014-10-27 13:40 ` Douglas J Hunley
2014-10-27 15:10 ` Mick
2014-10-28 12:57 ` Douglas J Hunley
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