RE: [gentoo-user] USB issue

["Michael Kintzios" <michaelkintzios@lycos.co.uk>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: richard.j.fish@gmail.com 
> [mailto:richard.j.fish@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Richard Fish
> Sent: 06 February 2006 14:18
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] USB issue
> 
> 
> > I'm still on the last 2.6.14 kernel and would like to know 
> any tricks I
> > need to put in place before I run into a USB problem . . . I have
> > hotplug in my rc-update default and coldplug in my 
> rc-update boot.  Do I
> > need to change these manually, or will a 2.6.15 kernel and 
> update world
> > sort it out for me?
> 
> It 'just worked' for me, but I do run ~x86.  The big difference
> between 2.6.14 and later kernels is that later kernels use netlink for
> hotplug events instead of udevsend.  You can see this towards the
> bottom of /lib/rcscripts/addons/udev-start.sh.  There is not anything
> special that you need to do to prepare for this, other than
> etc-update.
> 
> -Richard

Thanks, let's hope that'll be the case with my stable system, too.  I
was just asking to know if I will need to remove hotplug from the rc
levels and then unmerge it manually, or whether such things will be
taken care of by the update process.
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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