Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 14 Oct 2003 16:32:51 +0200 | From | David Jez <> | Subject | Re: hotplug and /etc/init.d/hotplug |
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On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 01:53:46PM +0200, sting sting wrote: > Hello, Hi,
> I am running RedHat 9 with 2.4.20-8 kernel ; > Now , I have a questo about hotplug: > I have hotplug-2002_04_01-17 installed (rpm); > > Now , I read the readme of this rpm ; > in their "installing" section , clause 5 , it says: > # cp etc/rc.d/init.d/hotplug /etc/rc.d/init.d/hotplug > # cd /etc/rc.d/init.d > # chkconfig --add hotplug > > I checked on my machine and there is no "hotplug" file in that folder. > Nevertheless, hotplugin works (because when I plug a USB camera > I can see in the kernel log (/var/log/messages) messages which start with > /etc/hotplug/usb.agent > > I also looked at the kernel code (method "call_polcy" in usb.c ) > and it doesn't seems to me that the hotplug in /etc/init.d is needed . > > can anybody make some clarifications ? Don't worry about it :-) /etc/init.d/... file is script for bring up hotplug subsytem... for usb it means: modprobe module for usb host controller adapter and mount /proc/bus/usb ... Hotplugin works because usb subsystem execute /sbin/hotplug binary...
Is that enought? > sting -- ------------------------------------------------------- David "Dave" Jez Brno, CZ, Europe E-mail: dave.jez@seznam.cz PGP key: finger xjezda00@eva.fit.vutbr.cz ---------=[ ~EOF ]=------------------------------------ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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