From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Nottingham Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 01:03:04 +0000 Subject: Re: rawhide hotplug broken 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 David Brownell (david-b@pacbell.net) said: > > 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. > > It'd be interesting to know why that isn't being included. Since we initialize usb in rc.sysinit, it wouldn't do anything. > Despite what Trond said (in a separate email on this thread), it > does more than just load modules; it also mounts "usbdevfs" at > the _right_ time (before USB host controller modules load) We do that. The reason cold-plugging doesn't work with this because the fs isn't read-write at the time. So in our current package, hotplug actually waits around for a while for the root fs to become read-write. It's not the most elegant solution, but it was the quickest to code at the time. Bill _______________________________________________ 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