From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brownell Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 03:44:00 +0000 Subject: Re: writeups for hotplugging S/390 chandev, PNP docking stations? 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 > > Also, let us know if there are hotplug scripts that > > should be incorporated into the standard toolset. > > > > I'd suspect they'd be more generally useful for the > > laptop docking stations than for the mainframes, > > but I could easily get surprised! :) > > Surprise! The mainframe plugs and un-plugs all the time. ... actually I meant that in the sense that there are more Linux laptops than Linux mainframes ... though I'm sure some vendors would gladly change that particular dynamic! :) > Let's just say that the mainframe Linux crowd > has been waiting for hotplug for a long time. :-) > Rebooting just to recognize a dynamic device > is ... sub-optimal. :-( I seem to recall mentioning that to Linus way back when I did the initial version of hotplug. As you imply, high availability servers need to really value their uptime, and "hot" reconfiguration is key to getting past just "five nines" into _really_ high system availability ... - 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