Re: linux hotplug/hotplug-ng

["Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@ums.usu.ru>]

Kasper Sandberg wrote:

>then i read up, and it seems that i still need them, however, hotplug-ng
>should now be able to do this stuff for a few of the things hotplug bash
>scripts did, namely the pci "agent" as it was called in /etc/hotplug,
>which will autoload modules for pci stuff, which i guess also includes
>stuff like amd64-agp, which stopped being autoloaded after stopping to
>use coldplug...
>
>  
>
Yes, hotplug-ng was a replacement for *.agent, not *.rc scripts, and 
thus it cannot handle coldplug.

>updates:
>i already wrote an ebuild and installed hotplug-ng, however hotplugging
>isnt happening, when inserting stuff it doesent load modules.. is there
>a way to make hotplug-ng do what hotplug/coldplug does? also, if you
>should want my hotplug-ng ebuild its availiable here:
>http://kaspersandberg.com/~redeeman/hotplug-ng-002.ebuild
>  
>
hotplug-ng is dead. Forget that it exists. It was superseded by the 
"modalias" support in the recent kernels (>=2.6.12). Now there are 
several coldplug approaches proposed to replace the original hotplug 
scripts.

One is based on a tiny program that sits in initramfs and accumulates 
early hotplug events for passing them to udev. This completely elminates 
the need for separate coldplug scripts.

The second one is the proposal to modify the existing "udevstart" 
program so that it reconstructs the events nearly in the same way as the 
original *.rc scripts did.

Also it is necessary to mention the hotplug-light package from 
http://www.bofh.it/~md/debian/ (to be used with either of the approaches).

-- 
Alexander E. Patrakov


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