Re: Coldpluging or USB Issues ?

[Razvan Gavril <razvan.g@plutohome.com>]

Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 11:25:05AM +0300, Razvan Gavril wrote:
>   
>> As far as i know since 2.6.15 there is a new coldplug mechanism using 
>> uevent and switching to a newer version of udevd that can do the cold 
>> plugging and replacing the old hotplug scripts would be the natural next 
>> step but before doing this i need to ask some questions like :
>> 1) Where there any changes sine 2.6.15 that could cause the old hotplug 
>> scripts to work reliable because most part of the time (95%) they are 
>> working ?
>>     
>
> I don't know, what is failing?
>
>   
Sometimes if fails to load the modules for the usb devices at boot but 
there are no step to reproduce, looks totally random and only on rare 
occasions if failing.
>> 2) Upgrading to newer version of udevd to let the udev scripts to do 
>> the coldpluging can solve any issues that where described ?
>>     
>
> Probably, that's what all of the major distros have already done.  It
> makes the startup logic much smaller and simpler.
>
> This should be continued on the linux-hotplug-devel mailing list if you
> are interested.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>   
I know that most major distros made the switch, but does anything 
changed so it would make debian's hotplug scripts (and i don't thing 
they are only used on debian) incompatible with kernels greater than 
2.6.15 ? I cannot risk to upgrade to udev and have the same unstable 
platform. The most secure option that i have now is going back to 2.6.13 
if udev can't give me a satisfactory answer.

PS: I can't find any mailing list named linux-hotplug-devel as i would 
be more that happy to move my mail there.