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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Support for multiple usermaps in hotplug usb.agent
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 01:34:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-102747429521281@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-102703767903147@msgid-missing>

>> In fact, if Max's patch had scanned /usr/lib/hotplug/*/usb.usermap,
>> then there'd be compatibility with Debian, and Debian could get rid
>> of the "update.usermap" script.  Yes ?
> 
> I guess so.  It should work for them.
> btw if we simply kept support for the central usb.usermap it will work 
> fine with current
> update-usb.usermap.

My thought exactly.  How about this:  Max generalizes his (small :) patch
to use a configurable location (or several? :) for usbmap extensions, so
Debian can point that to /usr/lib/hotplug (assuming it still wants), and
other distros can use /etc/hotplug/usb.  Then "update-usb.usermap" could
vanish from Debian (shouldn't matter in the short term), and this difference
would all but go away.  Someone writes this up for the usb hotplug webpage.


>> How did /usr/lib/hotplug get settled on?  There's also some code using
>> /usr/share/usb (/usr/lib is wrong for sharable stuff ...) for firmware
>> downloading, and I see that RedHat has /usr/share/hwdata/usb.ids ... that
>> is, not using /usr/share/usb either.  Does the Linux Filesystem standard
>> have anything useful to say about this?  Shouldn't it?

My personal taste is not to create another such directory, FWIW.  We have
/etc/hotplug and /etc/hotplug/usb already in use, so that'd be my preferred
default (as in Max's original patch). Does anyone here do LSB things?

- Dave





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      parent reply	other threads:[~2002-07-24  1:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-19  0:10 Support for multiple usermaps in hotplug usb.agent Maksim (Max) Krasnyanskiy
2002-07-21 13:57 ` Maksim (Max)  Krasnyanskiy
2002-07-21 13:58 ` Maksim (Max)  Krasnyanskiy
2002-07-21 17:26 ` Fumitoshi UKAI
2002-07-21 17:54 ` Johannes Erdfelt
2002-07-22  4:55 ` David Brownell
2002-07-22 22:03 ` Maksim (Max) Krasnyanskiy
2002-07-24  1:34 ` David Brownell [this message]

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