Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release

Christian Bornträger
2005-02-11T16:19:31Z

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?

cheers

Christian