2001-04-24 release of hotplug scripts

2001-04-24 release of hotplug scripts

[Greg KH]

I've just packaged up the latest Linux hotplug scripts into a release,
which can be found at:
	http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=17679
 
This release adds the Debian scripts to the tarball, although all of the
debian specific changes were not merged into the main scripts, it would
have caused too much conflict, sorry.  But the Debian patch is now much
smaller :)  It also adds a hotplug manpage donated by Debian developer
Fumitoshi UKAI.

Numerous little changes were also added to the scripts, here is the full
changelog:
        - added debian hotplug.8 manpage by Fumitoshi UKAI
        - bugfixes to modprobing
        - make sure setup scripts run even when there is no module
        - "event not supported" only seen if debugging
        - added debian directory filled with things needed to package
          the scripts for a debian release.
        - make sure setup scripts (for usermode drivers/apps) will
          run even without a kernel driver
        - bugfix match_flags support from Gioele Barabuci; might
          require bash2-isms
        - add kernel 2.2.18 bcdDevice bug workaround (Ben Woodard)
        - cleanups from Gioele Barabuci
        - tweaked the post and preun sections to fix problem of hotplug
          not starting automatically when the package is upgraded.

I've built RedHat 6.x and 7.x specific rpms due to some small
differences in where the two version place their documentation.  The
individual releases are at:

For RedHat 6.x:
	http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/linux-hotplug/hotplug-2001_04_24-1_6.x.noarch.rpm
	http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/linux-hotplug/hotplug-2001_04_24-1_6.x.src.rpm

For RedHat 7.x:
	http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/linux-hotplug/hotplug-2001_04_24-1_7.x.noarch.rpm
	http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/linux-hotplug/hotplug-2001_04_24-1_7.x.src.rpm

Source tarball:
	http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/linux-hotplug/hotplug-2001_04_24.tar.gz
	

greg k-h

2001-09-19 release of hotplug scripts

[Greg KH]

I've just packaged up the latest Linux hotplug scripts into a release,
which can be found at:
	http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=17679

This release adds ieee1394 support and a try at SuSE support :)

Here's the full changelog:
	- Added ieee1394.agent from Kristian Hogsberg
	  <hogsberg@users.sourceforge.net>
	- with docs, "sh -x" debug support, minor fix.  Needs kernel
	  2.4.10 and modutils 2.4.9 to hotplug.
	- Some of the updates from SuSE:
		* add/use debug_msg macro in hotplug_functions
		modprobe -s (to syslog)
		* various agent tweaks/fixes
		* more usb.handmap entries (from usbmgr)
	- Added the fxload program
	- Rework root makefile and hotplug.spec to install in prefix
	  location without need of spec file for install.
	- Added installation directions to make the /var/run/usb
	  directory, and updated the rpm spec file to match.
	- added half of Stephen Williams <steve@icarus.com> REMOVER
	  patch. It is up to the install script to create the
	  /var/run/usb directory.  Something like the following would be
	  enough:
	  	mkdir /var/run/usb
		chmod 0700 /var/run/usb

Thanks,

greg k-h

Re: 2001-09-19 release of hotplug scripts

[David Brownell]

> I've just packaged up the latest Linux hotplug scripts into a release,
> which can be found at:
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=17679
> 
> This release adds ieee1394 support and a try at SuSE support :)

And various bugfixes ... :)


> Here's the full changelog:
> - Added ieee1394.agent from Kristian Hogsberg
>   <hogsberg@users.sourceforge.net>
> - with docs, "sh -x" debug support, minor fix.  Needs kernel
>   2.4.10 and modutils 2.4.9 to hotplug.

To clarify, the ieee1394 support is what needs software that's
as-yet not quite released.  Other hotplugging (USB, PCI, network)
still works just fine with 2.4.0 (and, for USB, 2.2.current).  The
release is not (as one person suspected :) Science Fiction!


> - Some of the updates from SuSE:

... excluding most of the SuSE-specific admin stuff, so
for now SuSE users will need to get an RPM from SuSE
that knows and uses those hooks.  (Much like the way
the Debian and RedHat distros re-use this software.)

I figure converging admin between such distros is not a near
term possibility, but testing for each distro's admin hooks
and then using them is achievable.  We're not quite there
yet, but the size of the distro-specific patches should be
shrinking over time ... :)

- Dave

Re: 2001-09-19 release of hotplug scripts

[Ryan W. Maple]

On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, David Brownell wrote:

> > Here's the full changelog:
> > - Added ieee1394.agent from Kristian Hogsberg
> >   <hogsberg@users.sourceforge.net>
> > - with docs, "sh -x" debug support, minor fix.  Needs kernel
> >   2.4.10 and modutils 2.4.9 to hotplug.
> 
> To clarify, the ieee1394 support is what needs software that's
> as-yet not quite released.  Other hotplugging (USB, PCI, network)
> still works just fine with 2.4.0 (and, for USB, 2.2.current).  The
> release is not (as one person suspected :) Science Fiction!

Actually, it appears that the option to enable CONFIG_HOTPLUG was taken
out in 2.2.19, and is not in any of the 2.2.20-pre's.  I emailed Greg K-H
about this earlier this week.

I enabled it and it's "working for me" with hotplug-2001_04_24.  One-liner
follows:

--- linux-2.2.19/drivers/usb/Config.in  Sun Mar 25 11:37:37 2001
+++ linux-2.2.18/drivers/usb/Config.in  Sun Dec 10 19:49:43 2000
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 
 comment 'Miscellaneous USB options'
    bool '  Preliminary USB device filesystem' CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS
+   bool '  Support for hot-pluggable USB devices' CONFIG_HOTPLUG
    if [ "$CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL" = "y" ]; then
       bool '  Enforce USB bandwidth allocation (EXPERIMENTAL)' CONFIG_USB_BANDWIDTH
    else

Cheers,
Ryan

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