From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oliver Neukum Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 18:18:14 +0000 Subject: Re: /sbin/hotplug invocation for USB devices in 2.5.40 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 > - Don't make hotplug calls for USB devices until we have something > for them to do. (Essentially these are a new class of event.) > > The example that comes to mind is policy agents using those > events to choose a non-default device configuration. But USB > needs a bunch of work before such things become practical. And reporting the thing to a desktop enviroment. The cost is small and the thing is potentially useful. We discussed such stuff in Cologne and came to the conclusion that user space wants all information on device<->interface relationship it can get. Regards Oliver ------------------------------------------------------- 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