From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Knecht Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 14:44:58 +0000 Subject: RE: 1394 SPB-2 Drives 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 > > Even then for configuration there's a need to further support. > > The raw news about a device is of little use. You need the information > > about partitions and other things. > > Once the bus code has hotplugged a disk-style device so that a block > device driver is hooked in, then yes -- then you need partition info. > > But that's pretty late in the game, and can't apply to devices like > video cameras or a VCR. Exactly. Hotplugging for those already worksaccording to the statius page of 1394. Disks are the hard part. [MWK] Careful here. I think this means 'hot plugging' as defined by the folks working on 1394, not 'hotplugging' as defined by the folks working here. 1394 devices can be added or removed from the 1394 bus and the 1394 driver stack sees it. However, I think that all this stack does so far is support an interface library above it for small apps to talk to the hardware. [PLEASE REMEMBER, I'M NOT A SOFTWARE GUY!!!] And while we are discussing ieee1394, how does Linux support use of that bus as a LAN ? [MWK] There is the beginnings of a TCP/IP Over 1394 driver that works to some degree, although I have not used it. Last I heard it had to be installed as a module, which I personally rebel against being that I'm a newbie to Linux and don't know how to do it reliably and automatically! I am quite interested in this as I have a similar network up and running using Win ME and would like to replace it one of these days... Regards Oliver _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel