Re: fully udev-based hotplug system

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 02:33:41PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Greg KH (greg@kroah.com) said: 
> > > > 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.
> 
> So, if udev has come down to just this, why isn't the kernel running
> modprobe itself? :)

Someone has suggested just this, see the horrible patch in the archives
:)

thanks,

greg k-h


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