From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Colin Leroy <colin@colino.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hotplug_path no longer exported
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:23:40 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041117222340.GA4494@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041117231253.1ec92e6f.colin@colino.net>
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 11:12:53PM +0100, Colin Leroy wrote:
>
> Dunno. This driver has a reputation of being the worse wlan driver for
> prism2 chipsets out there, but it's the only one supporting USB devices.
Hm, I've heard that rumor before too. If only someone would get me such
a usb device, maybe that problem could be fixed :)
> With p80211_run_sbin_hotplug doing stuff to call /sbin/hotplug...
> The one that will write a correct patch to linux-wlan-ng will have to
> figure out the different events they use: "register" (instead of "add"),
> "startup", "shutdown", "resume", "suspend"...
Ick, ick, ick. It's about time we force them to play nice with the rest
of the kernel and userspace :)
Anyway, the proper fix is to use kobject_hotplug(). They will have to
change their code. Just one of the many joys of trying to keep a driver
outside of the main kernel tree...
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-17 22:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-17 19:31 hotplug_path no longer exported Colin Leroy
2004-11-17 21:48 ` Greg KH
2004-11-17 22:12 ` Colin Leroy
2004-11-17 22:23 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-11-18 8:17 ` Colin Leroy
2004-11-18 10:06 ` Joshua Kwan
2004-11-18 10:19 ` Colin Leroy
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