Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release

Greg KH
2005-02-11T17:01:55Z

On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 05:19:22PM +0100, Christian Borntr?ger wrote:
> On Friday 11 February 2005 07:46, Greg KH wrote:
> > And finally, even if you do use udevstart to manager /sbin/hotplug
> > events, you still need a module autoloader program. This package
> > provides executables for that problem, if you don't want to (or you
> > can't) use the existing linux-hotplug scripts. udev will never do the
> > module loading logic, so there's no duplication in this case.
>
> Greg,
> the pci module autoloader is a real agent, which means it depends on having a
> hotplug event. Are you planning to support a scan for already present
> devices, like the pci.rc file in current hotplug solutions?

It's not only pci, but all types of busses need this kind of "coldplug"
functionality. And yes, I have plans to provide that functionality in
this package too.

In fact, if anyone looking to contribute some well defined and easy to
test code... :)

thanks,

greg k-h