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

[Elimar Riesebieter]

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 the mental interface of
Marco d'Itri told:

> 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.

Well, I go ahead then.
Thank you gents for your advice.

Elimar

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