From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: iSteve Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 06:31:41 +0000 Subject: Re: overview of using hotplug in initrd Message-Id: <20060225073141.47311623@silver> 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 > 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 -- -- iSteve ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 _______________________________________________ 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