From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joseph Wenninger Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 15:17:47 +0000 Subject: Re: xhotplugd ??? 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 Hi On Thursday 25 July 2002 17:25, David Brownell wrote: > > http://at.rpmfind.net/opsys/linux/RPM/lycoris/build44/install/RPMS/khotpl > >ug-0.9.7-42rl.i586.html > > ftp://at.rpmfind.net/linux/lycoris/build44/rl/install/SRPMS/khotplug-0.9. > >7-42rl.src.rpm > > I took a quick look at this. Its "hotplugd" seems to be scanning > busses and delivering its own event reports to a UNIX socket that's > partially hidden (/var/run/.hotplugd). Then it seems like some KDE > program (which I'll think of as "xhotplugd") interprets those reports. > I looked at that application too, but it looks more like a hack than a real solution to me > > While the user mode code might be fine (but it didn't compile for > me on RH7.3), I think it'd be better to just come up with a way > to have the /sbin/hotplug code write more standard events to such > a UNIX domain socket. > I'm installing an old kde2 now to compile this application > > I'll be glad to see progress on hooking up hotplug events to > GUIs. There are (unfortunately) a number of cases where users > need to make choices when devices appear. > > - Dave Kind regards Joseph Wenninger ------------------------------------------------------- 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