From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fully udev-based hotplug system
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 05:00:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050624050031.GA24461@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050623215418.GA16536@wonderland.linux.it>
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 11:04:54PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Marco d'Itri (md@Linux.IT) said:
> > Could something like this work?
> >
> > The idea is to use udev as the hotplug multiplexer and totally kill
> > /sbin/hotplug and /etc/hotplug.d/default/default.hotplug (and hotplug.d/
> > too when other packages will stop using it).
> >
> > ACTION="add", SUBSYSTEM="pci", MODALIAS="*", \
> > RUN+="/sbin/modprobe $modalias"
> >
> > ACTION="add", SUBSYSTEM="usb", MODALIAS="*", \
> > RUN+="/sbin/modprobe $modalias"
>
> How does this handle when multiple modules claim the same alias?
> (this happens for PCI devices...)
>
> One method is to patch the module utilities to just insert all
> matches, I suppose.
That's exactly what modprobe now does in its latest version.
thanks,
greg k-h
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-24 5:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-23 21:54 fully udev-based hotplug system Marco d'Itri
2005-06-24 3:04 ` Bill Nottingham
2005-06-24 5:00 ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-06-24 5:02 ` Greg KH
2005-06-24 12:27 ` Kay Sievers
2005-06-24 12:35 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-06-24 12:43 ` Kay Sievers
2005-06-24 18:33 ` Bill Nottingham
2005-06-24 18:50 ` Greg KH
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