From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 22:40:53 +0000 Subject: Re: should the module script be invoked every time? 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 Monday 25 November 2002 22:57, David Brownell wrote: > Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: > > Is there a reason to name the hotplug scripts like the modules? > > Keeping things straight, and making it so you don't need to make any > kind of error-prone modification to files in tha quirky syntax. > > This is a bug that's been hanging around for a while. The fix should > finally be in current CVS, along with a few other updates mostly for > a bit more intelligence about how hotplug changed in 2.5 ... That's good, but IMHO there are several situations for hotplug to give some kind of support. 1. Scripts that need to run once, before or after modprobe. This is usually done with modules.conf (pre-install/post-install), but i would like to do that with hotplug also... 2. Scripts that need to run every time the device is plugged or unplugged, even if the driver is already loaded or not. That is the case of our ezusbmidi firmware loader. BTW, there can be several drivers for the same device, i.e. 'usb-midi' is the OSS driver and 'snd-usb-audio' is the ALSA driver. Midiman MidisportNxN devices may work with both drivers, but some firmware is needed first. The name 'ezusbmidi' for the script is neutral, and associated to the EZ-USB devices, not the driver name. I know another firmware for the same devices: http://www.informatik.uni-halle.de/~ladischc/midisport_linux_firmware.html That script is named 'midisport_fw', and i like that name. Regards, Pedro ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Get the new Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0002en _______________________________________________ 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