From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is there any docs or design guides for adding hotplugablity to drivers?
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 04:52:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-102558571513863@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-102555728227620@msgid-missing>
On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 02:00:19PM -0700, Mark Atwood wrote:
>
> Other than just reading the source, of course.
Read the docs on the web site.
There was an older article in Linux Journal that detailed the subsystem
quite well. And there was a paper presented at the 2001 Ottawa Linux
Symposium that had much the same information.
> I'm working on a Linux appliance, and I feel that using hotplug events
> to signal things like moving in range of an 802.11 access point,
> getting carrier on an ethernet port, and someone plugging a cable into
> the serial port, would make a lot of stuff much much easier.
>
> I suspect that a lot of this would be useful out in the "regular
> linux" world as well. Especially the ethernet carrier detect. (Windows
> can do it, and will invoke DHCP when you plug in an ethernet cable, it
> would be nice if Linux can do the same.)
Ethtool can do much of what you are looking for it sounds like.
Hope this helps,
greg k-h
-------------------------------------------------------
This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek
Welcome to geek heaven.
http://thinkgeek.com/sf
_______________________________________________
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
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-02 4:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-01 21:00 Is there any docs or design guides for adding hotplugablity to drivers? Mark Atwood
2002-07-02 2:23 ` Is there any docs or design guides for adding hotplugablity to David Brownell
2002-07-02 2:32 ` Is there any docs or design guides for adding hotplugablity to drivers? Chris Hanson
2002-07-02 3:37 ` Brad Hards
2002-07-02 4:52 ` Greg KH [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=marc-linux-hotplug-102558571513863@msgid-missing \
--to=greg@kroah.com \
--cc=linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).