From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>, Paul Jakma <paulj@alphyra.ie>,
knobi@knobisoft.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hardware Inventory [was: Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems?]
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 11:29:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020107192903.GB8413@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020107185001.GK7378@kroah.com> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201071109490.28000-100000@segfault.osdlab.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201071109490.28000-100000@segfault.osdlab.org>
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 11:19:06AM -0800, Patrick Mochel wrote:
>
> It's very closely related; kinda like kissing cousins.
>
> /sbin/hotplug is called from the kernel only, right?
Right. But there's no reason it can't be called from any other place.
It's just a userspace program with a well documented interface :)
> I see no reason to change that at all for notification of devices that are
> plugged in/removed by suprise.
Also realize that the first scan of a bus looks just like a device was
plugged in from the subsystem's point of view.
> I was thinking, though, more along the lines of triggering the probe for
> devices that the kernel has a tough time finding on its own. E.g. peer
> Host/PCI bridges, batteries, etc.
Ah, things that do not have individual kernel module drivers right now?
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-07 19:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-04 11:32 Hardware Inventory [was: Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems?] Martin Knoblauch
2002-01-04 22:17 ` Dave Jones
2002-01-05 17:00 ` Paul Jakma
2002-01-05 17:14 ` Dave Jones
2002-01-07 18:05 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-01-07 18:11 ` Dave Jones
2002-01-07 18:50 ` Greg KH
2002-01-07 18:58 ` Greg KH
2002-01-07 18:58 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-08 8:04 ` [kbuild-devel] " Giacomo Catenazzi
2002-01-08 18:36 ` Greg KH
2002-01-09 8:25 ` Giacomo Catenazzi
2002-01-07 18:58 ` Dave Jones
2002-01-07 19:06 ` Greg KH
2002-01-07 19:19 ` Dave Jones
2002-01-07 19:45 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-08 14:00 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-08 14:00 ` Erik Andersen
2002-01-07 19:19 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-01-07 19:29 ` Greg KH [this message]
2002-01-07 20:36 ` David Brownell
2002-01-07 22:03 ` Greg KH
2002-01-07 22:28 ` David Brownell
2002-01-07 23:59 ` Greg KH
2002-01-08 8:36 ` Kevin Easton
2002-01-11 21:52 ` David Brownell
2002-01-07 23:25 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-01-07 17:55 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-01-07 19:04 ` Richard Gooch
2002-01-07 19:26 ` Dave Jones
2002-01-07 19:41 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-07 19:58 ` Paul Jakma
2002-01-07 19:33 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-01-07 20:16 ` Andrew Morton
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-07 20:13 David Brownell
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