[Fwd: [linux-usb-devel] rawhide hotplug broken]

[Fwd: [linux-usb-devel] rawhide hotplug broken]

[Miles Lane]

FYI:

Jack Howarth wrote:
> 
>    In case folks here are unaware, RedHat has been hacking
> the hotplug srpm releases here for their rawhide releases
> (and I assume their upcoming RH 7.1 release) doing such things
> as removing the rc scripts from hotplug. On my linuxppc (running
> Linux 2.4.4pre1, glibc 2.2.3 and the rawhide srpms), I find
> that RedHat's modified hotplug doesn't work for loading the
> usb print module when it sees my Epson 740i printer. Their
> previous hotplug-1.9 release did work but RedHat claims this
> was broken and loaded all modules blindly.
>    I discovered last night that if I installed the latest
> hotplug-2001_02_28 and usbutils-0.7-101 rpms on my machine
> that the usb print module was loaded on boot or hotplugging
> the Epson 740i printer. I also discovered that I had to have
> usbutils installed for the hotplugging to work. Also if I
> substituted RedHat's rawhide hotplug-2001_02_14-15 rpm, the
> hotplugging no longer worked with or without usbutils.
> Perhaps some of the experts here should help out RedHat since
> they seem to be a tad confused on how the hotplug stuff should
> be set up. Oh, the bugzilla report for this problem is...
> 
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id5091
> 
> Thanks in advance for helping them out with this.
>                 Jack
> 
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