From: iSteve <isteve@rulez.cz>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: overview of using hotplug in initrd
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 06:31:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060225073141.47311623@silver> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602221115450.27382@www.mutagenix.org>
> Can someone point me to an overview or HOWTO in using hotplug in initrd
> for discovering hardware on boot up?
I'm sure I'll be shouted at for being obsolete, but my way, in InitRD, is to use
now discontinued hotplug-ng (courtesy of Greg Kroah-Hartman, whom I thank for
great software) for hotplugging and to detect existing hw, I use: for als in
`cat /sys/bus/*/devices/*/modalias`; do modprobe $als; done
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-25 6:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-22 16:16 overview of using hotplug in initrd Dan Barber
2006-02-22 16:31 ` Marco d'Itri
2006-02-22 22:47 ` Chris Smith
2006-02-25 0:26 ` marrandy
2006-02-25 1:39 ` David Gómez
2006-02-25 6:31 ` iSteve [this message]
2006-02-27 18:06 ` Aaron Griffin
2006-02-27 18:19 ` iSteve
2006-02-27 18:25 ` Aaron Griffin
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