From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 18:51:06 +0000 Subject: Re: status of /etc/hotplug/usb/ Message-Id: <20051202185106.GA5669@vrfy.org> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 07:08:15PM +0100, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > Hi, > > I read that debian killed that directory and thus > openct was no longer working(1). > > So I wonder what the position of the hotplug and udev > people here is on /etc/hotplug/usb/ Everything that is called "hotplug" should go, yes. :) > what the replacement is (I guess udev rules files), For a lot of simple things udev rules are a good replacement, right. For everthing advanced, more complicated, or touching Desktop applications, HAL is the way to go. SUSE uses HAL(simple hook-in) for openct. > and if there is some > paper with reasoning and suggestions > for the transition. any link would be fine. There is no paper, it just died silently. :) The rules can do everything that the map files did in the past. But as said, HAL is the proper place to do this. It can just do what /etc/hotplug/usb did, but ideally, any advanced hardware setup would expose its state trough HAL to the whole system with appropriate signals and properties on the corresponding HAL device object. That way all applications interested in a certain class of hardware just get the proper information and can adopt to the changing setup. Kay ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&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