Re: usb-storage

["Mika Penttilä" <mika.penttila@kolumbus.fi>]

Greg KH wrote:

>On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 06:10:35PM +0100, Luca T. wrote:
>  
>
>>Hello,
>>i would like to understand how hotplugging works, i did some experiments 
>>but without success.
>>If i did understand well, when i connect an usb-disk the script 
>>/etc/hotplug/usb/usb-storage should be fired... but this doesn't seem to 
>>happen.
>>    
>>
>
>What kernel are you using?
>
>  
>
>>I put a line inside it ( echo "test" >/tmp/test ) but the file is never 
>>created when i plug or unplug my usb-disk.
>>Why?
>>    
>>
>
>On 2.4 that script would only be run when the driver is first loaded.
>When the device is removed, the driver is never unloaded.
>
>thanks,
>
>greg k-h
>  
>
At least with recent hotplug packages user mode drivers are loaded even 
if kernel module is loaded or not, in 2.4 and 2.6.

--Mika




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