From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brownell Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 15:35:32 +0000 Subject: Re: Small patch for hotplug scripts, success story 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 Norbert, > linux-2.4.0-final + modutils/hotplug patch > modutils-2.4.1 > > hotplugging works IF: > > * usbmodules is removed: It gives NOTHING! at the moment, at least for > my devices Right -- the current version won't understand the 2.4.1 modutils output, but then its standard install isn't in the path that the hotplug scripts use. > * fix in hotplug.function: > LISTER=`which ${1}modules 2>/dev/null` > unfortunately if which is /usr/bin/which we get > LISTER="which: no usbmodules in ...." > because /usr/bin/which don't write this message to stderr, but stdout. > Therefor no internal scanning is done and nothing works. Curious. I didn't see that, but then maybe I'm running with a "which" command that doesn't have that bug. > Better would be > LISTER=`type -p ${1}modules` > since these scripts are bash and `type' is a buildin. Sounds good! The fix is now in CVS (at linux-usb for now). > But after these two changes (remove usbmodules and fix which<->type -p) it > is working! Great! Thanks for the confirmation. - Dave _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel