Bug 97662 – Bug in udev guide. The guide don't show how to add hotplug/coldplug to runlevels

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Luis Medinas (RETIRED) 2005-07-01 14:42:10 UTC]

The guide don't show how to add hotplug and coldplug to runlevels. I wrote a
patch for it i hope it's right.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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[Comment 1 Luis Medinas (RETIRED) 2005-07-01 14:45:58 UTC]

Created attachment 62432 [details, diff]
patch for udev-guide

[Comment 2 Luis Medinas (RETIRED) 2005-07-01 14:48:20 UTC]

thanks to unsolo and hparker that notice this bug.

[Comment 3 Jonathan Smith (RETIRED) 2005-07-01 15:16:29 UTC]

seems logical to me

[Comment 4 Michiel de Bruijne 2005-07-01 15:48:44 UTC]

I think that coldplug should be added to the boot runlevel instead of default runlevel. 

[Comment 5 Luis Medinas (RETIRED) 2005-07-01 15:57:51 UTC]

yes you are right... i forgot about that new patch is here

[Comment 6 Luis Medinas (RETIRED) 2005-07-01 15:58:34 UTC]

Created attachment 62439 [details, diff]
udev guide patch

[Comment 7 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-07-01 20:16:39 UTC]

Hotplug should not be added to any runlevel, it's dummy initscript that does not
do anything useful at all.

<snip>
pkg_postinst() {
        ewarn "WARNING: The hotplug init script is now gone (dead and burried.)"
        ewarn "WARNING: If you want to load modules for hardware that was already"
        ewarn "WARNING: discovered at boot time, like the old hotplug init script"
        ewarn "WARNING: did, then emerge the coldplug package, and add coldplug to"
        ewarn "WARNING: a runlevel, e.g. # rc-update add coldplug boot"
        echo
</snip>

[Comment 8 Luis Medinas (RETIRED) 2005-07-01 20:21:53 UTC]

Well so we should remove that from the handbook too ?

[Comment 9 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-07-01 20:35:56 UTC]

(In reply to comment #8)
> Well so we should remove that from the handbook too ?

Coldplug depends on hotplug anyway, it will be emerged automatically with
coldplug; no need to emerge it separately.

Hotplug installs required scripts for coldplug, but don't add it to any
runlevel, coldplug init script does the job now {if user wants it).

[Comment 10 Luis Medinas (RETIRED) 2005-07-02 04:33:04 UTC]

Created attachment 62456 [details, diff]
udev guide patch

Thanks. This patch contains that fix.

[Comment 11 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2005-07-02 06:08:04 UTC]

Thanks, committed to CVS. Same for handbook, btw.