From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Rick Troth" Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 17:26:08 +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 > The hotplug script there doesn't follow the conventions of the > linux-hotplug project; that'd involve "/etc/hotplug/chandev.agent" > as the script doing the magic. Which means that the network > hotplug events will get ignored ... why is that? Seems to me > more natural to do network administration through network > hotplug events, not chandev ones! (The /sbin/hotplug script > normally delegates the work to /etc/hotplug/$1.agent ...) I can't speak to this, but I'm sure the S/390 subdivision of the Linux community would like to see it fixed. > I believe there's a bunch left unsaid there about what the > device names indicate. I'd hope that eth0/eth1/eth2 are all > Ethernet, Yes. > and that tr0 is token ring (it still lives? :), but I have Token ring, yes. Still lives in some corners. > no clue what "ctc0" would be or, in general, how and what > those names are. Wouldn't disk drives show up there? > And tape backup units, etc? CTC is "channel-to-channel" which is a point-to-point thing conceptually like two SCSI chains having a bridge between them. Mainframe also has a network interface known as IUCV (iucv0, iucv1, etc), but that has no representation in real hardware so I don't know if it would really fit in the "chandev" suite. > What I'll do is stick a pointer to it, and update the linux-hotplug > webpage about "chandev" to present some of that info. My > understanding is that the management of mainframes has its > own families of idiosyncracies, developed over decades, that > it's not worth my time to master ... :) For now I'm happy just > to keep the subsystem information current on the web Thanks for keeping it current. I for one very much value the commonality and hope that S/390 will be able to use most of this infrastructure rather than re-invent it. _______________________________________________ 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