Re: Unloading drivers, start-up, shut-down and some clean-ups

[Stamatis Mitrofanis <ewstam@softhome.net>]

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Harald Barth wrote:

> A while ago Stamatis Mitrofanis wrote something about a rewrite of the
> hotplug scripts to support start/stop as the *.rc scripts do. As I
> think this is the right thing to do (This $REMOVE thingie looks ugly).
> I wonder what happened after the mail 10/05/2001 21:13:53.
> 
> Did someone consider the changes proposed?
> Did someone get to some conclusion?


If nothing else, then somebody at least do the *.agent *.rc script 
unification! (please?)

> Someone did save that tarball? ...

Well, I have... Sorry for not providing a series of patches but I started

rewriting the scripts from nothing (occasionally borrowing some code from

the old scripts, though, but mostly rewriting everything).


I have the newest tarball included as an attachment. Take a look at it. 
It doesn't want to be in just my hard disk any more.

I did all this because the scripts seemed a little ugly to me:
* redundant .rc scripts
* no uniform directory naming (.handmap .distmap .usbmap blacklist...)
* ugly indenting of scripts
* nonextensible, restrictive, RedHatish central hotplug.functions file
* no per-subsystem configuration files or subdirectories (pesky CVS 
subdirs...)
* no per-subsystem-driver map files (for drivers that don't provide the 
information internally)
* USB start event not trigerred by PCI driver-specific script
* didn't work well with a non-highly-modular kernel
* <your favorite inconvenience here>

To see the solutions I suggest, _just take a look at the scripts_. I've 
included a couple of example driver agents too.

Also on hotplug...

I set up the scripts to call wget and use a simple format for queries

to automatically download drivers from some central server. It's quite

a simple design, but flexible. See the scripts for more. I know I have

put plenty of descriptive comments.


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