Re: [ANNOUNCE] Diet /sbin/hotplug package released

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 04:21:48PM +0100, Alex Bligh - linux-kernel wrote:
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> --On Thursday, August 30, 2001 12:47 PM +0200 Stefan Fleiter 
> <[e-mail]> wrote:
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> > Does it really make any sense to optimize for size and at the same time
> > force the user to install a bash compatible shell?
> 
> No, that's why diet /sbin/hotplug didn't require any shell (as I understood
> it), whereas the normal hotplug suite does.

Exactly.  diethotplug does not require any shell or awk to be present to
work.  It compiles to a binary which is smaller than the existing
modules.usbmap file is (and can get smaller, I haven't started to
optimize for space yet.)

To help clear up a few questions I've been getting, diethotplug is for
systems that care about space, like embedded or boot rescue discs.  It
will also be handy for loading PCI and USB kernel modules at boot time
based on what devices are present in the system, with the upcoming 2.5
initrd method.

It is not a replacement for the current linux-hotplug scrips, but
another alternative for situations that they didn't make sense.

thanks,

greg k-h