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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, mochel@osdl.org
Subject: Re: Hardware Inventory [was: Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems?]
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 14:03:49 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020107220348.GE9271@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020107192903.GB8413@kroah.com> <17b801c197ba$febd13c0$6800000a@brownell.org>
In-Reply-To: <17b801c197ba$febd13c0$6800000a@brownell.org>

On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 12:36:32PM -0800, David Brownell wrote:
> 
> It's too early, the system isn't "hot" yet ... which is why I call this
> problem the "coldplug" issue.   Even simple device setup
> operations like modprobing may not be possible, much less
> more complex ones like alerting/starting daemons.  So the
> init.d/hotplug script, invoked later, fakes hotplug events to
> make sure the same setup gets done, without requiring users
> to unplug/replug devices.

Hopefully, integration of /sbin/hotplug during the boot process (using
dietHotplug) will reduce the number of things the "coldplug" issue will
have to handle.

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-07 22:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-04 11:32 Hardware Inventory [was: Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems?] Martin Knoblauch
2002-01-04 22:17 ` Dave Jones
2002-01-05 17:00   ` Paul Jakma
2002-01-05 17:14     ` Dave Jones
2002-01-07 18:05       ` Patrick Mochel
2002-01-07 18:11         ` Dave Jones
2002-01-07 18:50           ` Greg KH
2002-01-07 18:58             ` Greg KH
2002-01-07 18:58               ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-08  8:04               ` [kbuild-devel] " Giacomo Catenazzi
2002-01-08 18:36                 ` Greg KH
2002-01-09  8:25                 ` Giacomo Catenazzi
2002-01-07 18:58             ` Dave Jones
2002-01-07 19:06               ` Greg KH
2002-01-07 19:19                 ` Dave Jones
2002-01-07 19:45                   ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-08 14:00                   ` Alan Cox
2002-01-08 14:00                     ` Erik Andersen
2002-01-07 19:19             ` Patrick Mochel
2002-01-07 19:29               ` Greg KH
2002-01-07 20:36                 ` David Brownell
2002-01-07 22:03                   ` Greg KH [this message]
2002-01-07 22:28                     ` David Brownell
2002-01-07 23:59                       ` Greg KH
2002-01-08  8:36                       ` Kevin Easton
2002-01-11 21:52                         ` David Brownell
2002-01-07 23:25       ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-01-07 17:55     ` Patrick Mochel
2002-01-07 19:04       ` Richard Gooch
2002-01-07 19:26         ` Dave Jones
2002-01-07 19:41           ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-07 19:58           ` Paul Jakma
2002-01-07 19:33         ` Patrick Mochel
2002-01-07 20:16           ` Andrew Morton
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-07 20:13 David Brownell

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