[Pkg-alsa-devel] modutils, discover and hotplug

[Marco d'Itri]

On Sep 11, Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie at lxtec.de> wrote:
 
> > On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 06:47:47PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> > > before preparing 1.0.15 I want to close some bugs first and do an
> > > 1.0.14 upload. On that I am cleaning alsa-base from hotplug stuff. Do
> > > you agree to remove all discover stuff as well? I'll remove all
> > > discoverscripts and dependencies then. It is not needed since we're
> > > running udev in lenny/sid! BTW I never used discover in the past.
> > 
> > I think you're right here, but I am Cc:ing marco just to get the
> > in-house expert opinion on this.
> > 
> > As far as I can tell, we should be able to do without all of this, but
> > Marco, how "mandatory" is udev in lenny and onwards? Is it reasonable to
> > run a system without it?

Almost every system running a 2.6 kernel already has udev installed:

http://people.debian.org/~igloo/popcon-graphs/index.php?packages=module-init-tools+udev&show_installed=on&show_old=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date=&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1

It is required by initramfs-tools and the foundation of the Gnome
desktop. I am not sure about gentoo, but SuSE and Red Hat made udev not
optional a long time ago.
I think it's reasonable to make alsa-base depend on it.


Anyway, discover has not been loading drivers by default for a long time.

-- 
ciao,
Marco
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