Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:18:17 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] a very tiny /sbin/hotplug |
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On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 05:53:01PM -0600, Chris Larson wrote: > * Eugene Surovegin (ebs@ebshome.net) wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 03:14:06PM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > So, a number of people have complained over the past few years about the > > > fact that /sbin/hotplug was a shell script. Funny enough, it's the > > > people on the huge boxes, with huge number of devices that are > > > complaining, not the embedded people with limited resources (ironic, > > > isn't it...) > > > > This is probably because embedded people don't use hotplug at all :). > > On dozen different PPC and MIPS boxes I worked on, we never needed > > this feature. > > I tend to focus on ARM, and find this very useful. I know of a number > of folks using erik andersen's "diethotplug" (which hasnt been touched > in some time). I look forward to your further hotplug improvements.
Yes, diethotplug is based on my old package called, supprise, diethotplug, and is located at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/
But that only does module loading. The "full" replacement of today's /sbin/hotplug functionality needs this hotplug multiplexer, and a diethotplug replacement (which can get much smaller than the current diethotplug due to the way modprobe works in 2.6.)
thanks,
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