Re: /sbin/hotplug invocation for USB devices in 2.5.40

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 02:18:48PM -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> 
> >> - Don't make hotplug calls for USB devices until we have something
> >>   for them to do.  (Essentially these are a new class of event.)
> >
> >
> >Why not?  That lets us load drivers based on vendor and product id.  The
> >interface specific calls let us load protocol specific drivers, giving
> >us a semblance of heirachy that a lot of people used to want a few years
> >ago (and Johannes provided a patch for a long time ago.)
> 
> I didn't know we had any problems loading drivers based on vendor+product 
> ...
> sure seems like I've been doing it for a few years now!

Doh, nevermind, I shouldn't write on an empty stomach...

> Today's MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE, with flags, should be isomorphic to as much
> of a hierachy as is really needed.  I seem to recall Johannes saying his
> patch didn't do everything MSFT seemed to say needed doing, either.

I also remember the MSFT documentation being to complex for what is
really needed :)

Anyway, it was just a suggestion, I need to update diet-hotplug to work
with the new fields and see if I can get away with just using the
driverfs/kfs files.

thanks,

greg k-h



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