Re: usbcore vs. udev

[Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>]

Greg KH (greg@kroah.com) said: 
> > modprobe usbcore yields no events to udev, as far as I can tell
> > by putting a catchall script in /etc/dev.d/default.
> 
> Nor should it.  Why would you think it should?

Only because it emitted events on remove. :)

> Ah, you mean the class add and remove.  Hm, I think we don't emit those
> because those are classes (not class_dev), and at remove time we don't
> know to not emit them.  I'm considering always emiting them at add also,
> but it might mess up some userspace stuff, so I'm trying to be cautious
> and test it out a lot first.
> 
> But again, udev doesn't care about these events, nor should it.

Probably not. Perhaps hooking into hotplug for the class is better;
what I was originally looking at is hooking into the class/device
plug for the mounting of usbfs.

Bill


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