From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brownell Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 22:14:52 +0000 Subject: Re: OT(?) -- Should the net.agent script cause "ifup lo" to be run? 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 > > I think the plan of record for 2.4 is to make hotplug handle cardbus > > and pcmcia_cs/cardmgr handle pcmcia. If anyone thinks it's > > something else, please speak up! > > That's rather ugly (cardmgr will still print messages for everything > that's inserted), Noise in /var/log/messages that will normally be ignored. (If it's a problem, wouldn't it be a cardmgr problem?) > inconsistent in UI (cardmgr beeps, etc., hotplug > doesn't), If there are only two possible devices, and you're in an environment where the noise is OK, beeps are unlikely to be annoying. Even two at boot time. Systems with a dozen USB devices are not uncommon; I'd rather rely on hub LEDs for feedback than get lots of noise on reboot, or when I plug in a hub that has a bunch of devices already connected. Though if you really think that CardBus hotplugging should beep, that should be an easy patch ... cPCI evidently uses blue lights in its feedback (doesn't Compaq's Hotplug PCI use LEDs too?), so that shouldn't be a PCI-wide policy. > and just generally odd from an end-user's perspective > (You see, if you plug *that* card into the slot, you need cardmgr > running; if you plug that other card in, you need hotplug.) "Have both these installed and any supported card will work" doesn't seem odd! Quite the opposite. > It's actually not too hard to make cardmgr work fine with 2.4. Never said it was. The question is how to handle cardbus support, given that pcmcia_cs (with cardmgr) is oriented towards pcmcia while the overall Linux direction seems to be to towards a more general framework for pci hotplug. - Dave _______________________________________________ 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