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On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 11:19:06AM -0800, Patrick Mochel wrote: > > It's very closely related; kinda like kissing cousins. > > /sbin/hotplug is called from the kernel only, right? Right. But there's no reason it can't be called from any other place. It's just a userspace program with a well documented interface :) > I see no reason to change that at all for notification of devices that are > plugged in/removed by suprise. Also realize that the first scan of a bus looks just like a device was plugged in from the subsystem's point of view. > I was thinking, though, more along the lines of triggering the probe for > devices that the kernel has a tough time finding on its own. E.g. peer > Host/PCI bridges, batteries, etc. Ah, things that do not have individual kernel module drivers right now? greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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