Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Jan 2002 11:29:03 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: Hardware Inventory [was: Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems?] |
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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?
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