Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 May 2006 08:13:58 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: Coldpluging or USB Issues ? |
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On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 03:09:18PM +0300, Razvan Gavril wrote: > 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.
I have not heard of this problem before, nor can I think of anything that has changed to affect this.
But those hotplug scripts are old and crufty and not really supported by anyone anymore.
> >>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. > 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 ?
Why not ask the Debian maintainer of these scripts. I'm sure that a lot of Debian users still use them without udev.
> 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.
http://www.google.com/search?q=linux-hotplug-devel+mailing+list second hit shows the mailman interface to sign up or send mail to it.
thanks,
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