What is the proper way to restart udev?

[Dan]

Steven W. Orr wrote:
> I found /sbin/udevstart but there is no udevstop. Can I kill -1 the 
> running udevd, or do I kill -9 the udevd followed by a udevstart, or 
> do I have to reboot?
>
> TIA
>
Not certain on this but my gut tells me it'd be bad to kill udev on a 
running system.
-Dan