From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 17:28:56 +0000 Subject: Re: Hotplug-- who notifies whom of what? Message-Id: <20040217172855.GC13363@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <40316638.9060501@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <40316638.9060501@earthlink.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 09:34:30AM -0600, Bryan W. Headley wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > >On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 06:54:16PM -0600, Bryan W. Headley wrote: > > > >>Greg, > >> > >>Regards to Aiptek USB tablets... > >> > >>I'm trying to figure out a strategy for hotplugging. > >> > >>1) The tablet is mapped to the input device system. > >> a) Because the order in which drivers complete loading/registering > >> is not deterministic (e.g., mouse driver spawns thread), I do not > >> know with certainty that the tablet will always be mapped to > >> /dev/input/event27. So, configuration files of certain (XFree) > >> applications that require that the path be known and static enough > >> to put in a text file. > > > > > >Use udev to always create your "/dev/input/tablet_mine_all_mine" node so > >that XFree does not have to be reconfigured all the time. > > What do I do in 2.4-land? The silliness with hotplug scripts, .rc > scripts, etc.? I don't really know, sorry. Luckily I'm not running 2.4 on any of my machines :) Anyone else have an idea? thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id56&alloc_id438&op=click _______________________________________________ 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