From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 04:52:08 +0000 Subject: Re: Is there any docs or design guides for adding hotplugablity to drivers? 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 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