From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brownell Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 06:31:41 +0000 Subject: Re: Adaptec SlimSCSI 1480A Message-Id: 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 > I am trying the hotplug facilities. If I understand it correctly, the > kernel call a user space tool which is then in charge of loading drivers > for the just plugged device. Loading drivers and doing whatever else is appropriate at that level. For now, it's mostly driver loading, though there are examples of things like PDA hotsyncing, firmware downloading, and uploading photographs from digital cameras. > Then kernel supporting the hotplug API are > used (drivers providing standby/resume). > Cardbus card are usable without pcmcia stuff. The suspend/resume support is actually a bit orthogonal to the hotplug support, though I think it's appropriate to expect that all drivers support it. Also it's PCI-specific at this time; USB power management doesn't currently understand those issues except at the level of host controllers. As Greg noted, exporting the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE is also pretty important ... at least from the perspective of user mode driver selection. - Dave _______________________________________________ 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