From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Marcus.Meissner@caldera.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hotplug mopup
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 13:10:19 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A3542BB.F2D7FA0F@pacbell.net> (raw)
> > - I don't think we can say that the kernel hotplug interface is
> > complete until we have real, working, tested userspace tools. David,
> > could you please summarise the state of play here? In particular,
> > what still needs to be done?
>
> Well, for USB I would like to know which device major/minor entry a newly
> plugged device is associated with.
>
> Like if I insert a new USB camera, I want to easy find out it is char 81.1
> (/dev/video1). Or if I plugin a USB storage device I want to easy find out
> it is /dev/sda now.
How might that relate to devfs integration? It addresses similar
problems, and devfsd can call to userspace when such drivers (ones
that show up through major/minor device nodes) appear. True, some
folk who want to hotplug might want to not run devfs.
- Dave
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-11 21:10 David Brownell [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-12-10 12:31 hotplug mopup Andrew Morton
2000-12-10 12:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2000-12-10 13:25 ` Andrew Morton
2000-12-10 15:10 ` Marcus Meissner
2000-12-11 2:36 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2000-12-11 7:04 ` Andrew Morton
2000-12-10 16:35 ` David Brownell
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