From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Marco d'Itri" Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 10:23:31 +0000 Subject: Re: Non-hardware devices like loop: another idea Message-Id: <20040318102331.GA4931@wonderland.linux.it> List-Id: References: <200403122003.00557.patrakov@ums.usu.ru> In-Reply-To: <200403122003.00557.patrakov@ums.usu.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Mar 18, "Alexander E. Patrakov" wrote: > >Take a look at a distro's modules.alias file. With your scheme you > >would have them load every possible module. Not a good idea :) I'm not sure about what looking at this would buy you. Can you be more explicit? > Missing things are: > 1) psmouse Just yesterday I asked Vojtech Pavlik about this and he explained that the kernel still lacks hotplug support for the serio layer. There are patches but they are not finished and help would be appreciated. > 2) ide-cd Last month Greg said that this should be handled by the distribution init scripts, but did not explain how. I could not find anything in the hotplug packages of the major RPM-based distributions, so I'm looking for clues about this. -- ciao, | Marco | [5177 l'P4w3ETnUl/E] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&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