From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37ED1138873 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 12:06:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4DCDCE084B; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 12:06:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f182.google.com (mail-wi0-f182.google.com [209.85.212.182]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DDDFAE0810 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 12:06:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f182.google.com with SMTP id bs8so1046613wib.9 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 05:06:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=ZUZK9svvBtdEBq0HLc/P45sr3NiWk5qf4J5l/zWcPzE=; b=PTBTXGWaQ+MWM7CQ375zgIU3XRfBuWwLSa7c4iPQjNpah9iHMbc0FybPcXmmoq9KLC jbB8pxI08IEu3qAVc3y3/yXDzLhlRrZhnVGVS/19eUx1RwvwXhrSN6UQ5rjHFynVM5Oy WdDmAxgUPUQWHn3EboFfE/Xw/TzslefwpGKIubuVZJhZXV5Pbok5AUV5xxLWhRDOGMCg 2ui+fDxTfLJ2r7+XgnPsP8O2Nw+hv9zUK+4shfOizH9cy61ZO3GPPfhKtmOk7z4u1BJR 2KibVbh7VrwA5HPbjDmv+jxWg16FRAuEeXi8W9ksW8MAPuSQcsjfzWyYARWoYuwvKkig Yk5Q== X-Received: by 10.180.73.212 with SMTP id n20mr3499211wiv.59.1414152390478; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 05:06:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa. [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id mc4sm1813967wic.6.2014.10.24.05.06.29 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 24 Oct 2014 05:06:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.14.14-gentoo; KDE/4.12.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <201410241237.10235.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20141024124714.319e4ec1@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20141024124714.319e4ec1@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart5164693.aj146RVkaG"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha256 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201410241306.03183.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: c32ed5b0-b72f-4d13-8f30-71f8c00df3e7 X-Archives-Hash: 5355447be76733fdeaeae26ef24812f2 --nextPart5164693.aj146RVkaG Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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: > >=20 > >=20 > > 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 fo= r a=20 quick response. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart5164693.aj146RVkaG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAABCAAGBQJUSkCrAAoJELAdA+zwE4YeDiwH/06Wa14yWvcmwrNJ4hG04I8m yClZibZq5Dllw/LF5yTdVpWNdK27S32jnfL+N1XNPQ3Hy7Kourzh8LQnd74EmRnk E34NwJZKgvZy7R7IGf4hzi3ZZjGnZfy2rEEKaGSgktAmirI2TRMFQG7ZWBPbPVFX yDEun7wCoOZuVKpn2LmSIM1Ddf8XNTxSpdE41ner0oQWws8VW+d5ZFHtHJ5ReLVT fy15wV+fACn3fK/BE+uUtWC50hZ3MEiYh8BTd7UTNfao+jgKOqL7ixSY6T8trXgw DvJqnL+01leUoyNoqYdyY7XX95+6Tlp4mhjye52M4bVhAszx7bkatLYBWRt0748= =vlhL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart5164693.aj146RVkaG--