Re: udev: disable mtd_probe?

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 18 Jul 2011, Kay Sievers wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 22:45, Allin Cottrell <cottrell@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Since the new mechanism for enabling/disabling selected components of the
> > udev "extras" was introduced it hasn't been possible to disable mtd_probe,
> > so far as I can see.
> >
> > Could we please have that option, unless there are compelling reasons to the
> > contrary? The MTD stuff drags in a bunch of
> > dependencies.
>
> No problem with the patch or the option [...]

Good, thanks.

> but: Dependencies? A bunch? I don't see any. Not even the rules 
> are doing anything, if no mtd devices are present.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but I thought I had to install 
the mtd-utils and/or configure MTD support into the kernel. 
Certainly, the mtd_probe build bombs out on my system with mtd.h not 
found. And if the mtd-utils are needed, they drag in attr and 
libacl.

--
Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University
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