From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Erdfelt Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:07:17 +0000 Subject: Re: (Linus, please respond!) Re: Roadmap to restoring working usb module autoloading? 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 Sat, Jan 20, 2001, Miles Lane wrote: > Keith Owens wrote: > > > Since usb is the only table that has multiple versions at the > > moment, it is the only one to worry about. Version 1 usb is > > 2.4.0-prerelease and earlier, this works with all modutils. > > I want to support this earlier version because I know of at > > least one group that is still using 2.4.0-test12 for IA64 > > hardware reasons. > > I would like to know more about this. Does anyone have specifics > about this IA64 issue? Kieth, would you research this? I don't know of anyone using 2.4.0-test12. 2.4.0 is much more stable since it has some important stability fixes for ia64. If they can't use 2.4.0 kernels, that means they're running an old stepping of the CPU's, and autoloading of the USB modules are the least of their concerns. > David Brownell has already dropped all support for the > pre-2.4.0 versions of hotplugging. People who want to use > the USB backport can simply continue using the usb.rc and USB > policy scripts, can't they? Exactly. If they REALLY must use pre 2.4 kernels, they have other issues to worry about. They can manually load the modules or patch themselves. Keith, please, let it go. JE _______________________________________________ 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