From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: gerneral question for linux-2.6 and udev and hotplug
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 17:07:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050930170701.GA18039@vrfy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11E3973D1E78D311A5B400508B4A70CE02B3CEE1@COMSRVR>
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 10:51:55AM -0400, Gavin Li wrote:
> All,
>
> I am trying migrate to 2.6 kernel from 2.4.
> I copied RedHat FC3 kernel binary vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 to my harddrive, and
> /bin /sbin and /lib /usr/ are also copied.
> I didn't copy /etc to my harddrive, I installed hotplug-2004_09_23 to my
> /etc
> In my /etc/inittab, I set start script to my own start script, which is
> /etc/rc.d/rcS
Hell, what are you doing? How about installing a recent distro version
and everything will just work out of the box?
> My problem is:
> when I plug in a USB flash drive, nothing happened, I can't find hotplug is
> working
>
> Then I change echo /sbin/udevsend > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug to echo
> /sbin/mytest > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug
>
> and mytest script is :
> echo "starting hotplug" > /tmp/tmp.txt
>
> then I do plug/unplug USB flash drive, the file size of /tmp/tmp.txt is 0,
> which means mytest script is never got executed.
>
> Anything I did wrong? or do I miss something
Yes, the very first thing you did wrong is messing around with an old
installation and mixing completely incompatible components!
The script is broken, I expect. Does it have #!/bin/sh? Is it executable?
> One more question:If I use udev-070, do I still need to compile and install
> sysfsutils and/or sysutils?
No, it's not needed or useful.
Kay
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-30 17:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-30 14:51 gerneral question for linux-2.6 and udev and hotplug Gavin Li
2005-09-30 17:07 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2005-10-01 0:30 ` Patrick Mansfield
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