Re: udev sysfs docs Re: State of devfs in 2.6?

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Dec 09 2003 - 04:30:52 EST


On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 02:21:11AM -0500, Bob wrote:
>
> hotplug and udev and sysfsutils are together at
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug
> so hotplug is part of the sysfs and udev program.

No.

udev uses the /sbin/hotplug notifier to do its work.
udev uses libsysfs (what is under sysfsutils) to access sysfs easier,
instead of making me muck around in sysfs directly. sysfsutils has
nothing to do with /sbin/hotplug.

greg k-h
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