Re: fully udev-based hotplug system

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 11:54:18PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> 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"

Is the $modalias new?  Or did I miss another neat feature that Kay
slipped in? :)

But yes, I don't see why it wouldn't work.

> # I have a working serio.agent, but how can other bus types be supported?
> # Which other bus types exist?

Look at the current hotplug package for this answer.

> # When the input subsystem will be modalias-enabled this will become
> # a modprobe call like for the others.
> ACTION="add", SUBSYSTEM="input", BUS="serio", \
> 	RUN+="/etc/hotplug/serio.agent"
> 
> # I have not written yet this one...
> ACTION="add", SUBSYSTEM="ieee1394", RUN+="/etc/hotplug/ieee1394.agent"
> 
> # what else is worth special-casing before it will be converted to the
> # driver model?

scsi?

thanks,

greg k-h


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