From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kasper Sandberg Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 07:59:27 +0000 Subject: linux hotplug/hotplug-ng Message-Id: <1123747167.31868.11.camel@localhost> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org hello.. i am sending this mail to this list on request of greg, so he can answer in public. original mail: the questions i have are about linux and hotplug, i dont fully understand how it works, and its relationship with udev. i run gentoo with udev, and then i noticed that hotplug was not used as hotplug manager anymore, udevsend is. and then hotplug is not nessecary, so i unmerged hotplug and coldplug, because i believed that those bash scripts for modprobing modules of devices that you have would now be done via udevsend, however it does now... then i read up, and it seems that i still need them, however, hotplug-ng should now be able to do this stuff for a few of the things hotplug bash scripts did, namely the pci "agent" as it was called in /etc/hotplug, which will autoload modules for pci stuff, which i guess also includes stuff like amd64-agp, which stopped being autoloaded after stopping to use coldplug... i was wondering if you could explain to me how these things works, what i need for what, i would really like to get the autoloading part back with hotplug-ng.. if thats possible, so that i dont need those bash scripts anymore.. if all i need is hotplug-ng installed i can easily write a ebuild and stuff... ------ updates: i already wrote an ebuild and installed hotplug-ng, however hotplugging isnt happening, when inserting stuff it doesent load modules.. is there a way to make hotplug-ng do what hotplug/coldplug does? also, if you should want my hotplug-ng ebuild its availiable here: http://kaspersandberg.com/~redeeman/hotplug-ng-002.ebuild basically what i have done is uninstall coldplug and hotplug, and installed hotplug-ng, i tried invoke hotplug-ng myself, but i couldnt get it to do anything... Regards, Kasper Sandberg ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel