Re: sending uevent form SATA promise driver.

[Padmini Krishnamurthy <krishpm@yahoo.com>]

Our test device is connected to the promise card which sits on a PCI slot on the PC. Our test SATA driver drives this device. The driver is loaded during bootup. I am seeing output of both udevadm and /var/log/messages when I turn on the device. I see the interrupt handling messages on /var/log/messages but udevadm does not report any event recived.
So, I ported some of the hotplug support from libata. But there I see that the hotplug event notification is handled in acpi. So, I am not sure, if I have to add this in our driver at the device attach routine?
How would the uevent be sent to udev when the device is attached?


Thanks,
Padmini



--- On Mon, 10/27/08, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:

> From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
> Subject: Re: sending uevent form SATA promise driver.
> To: "Padmini Krishnamurthy" <krishpm@yahoo.com>
> Cc: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
> Date: Monday, October 27, 2008, 9:50 AM
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 17:42, Padmini Krishnamurthy
> <krishpm@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I am adding hotplug support to our SATA promise
> driver. Can I send a uevent
> > from promise driver directly instead of using the
> hotplug support provided
> > by acpi?. We do not have acpi support .
> 
> What do you mean? I guess you create and remove devices in
> the kernel
> device tree, which represent the hotplugged devices
> connected to your
> controller. These devices will send uevents on their own,
> there is
> usually no need to send any events with the driver. Just
> run "udevadm
> monitor" while you connect/diconnect any device, and
> you will see
> hotplugged devices coming and going depending on the bus
> they live on.
> 
> Kay