On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 05:19:22PM +0100, Christian Borntr?ger wrote: > On Friday 11 February 2005 07:46, Greg KH wrote: > > And finally, even if you do use udevstart to manager /sbin/hotplug > > events, you still need a module autoloader program. This package > > provides executables for that problem, if you don't want to (or you > > can't) use the existing linux-hotplug scripts. udev will never do the > > module loading logic, so there's no duplication in this case. > > Greg, > the pci module autoloader is a real agent, which means it depends on having a > hotplug event. Are you planning to support a scan for already present > devices, like the pci.rc file in current hotplug solutions?
It's not only pci, but all types of busses need this kind of "coldplug" functionality. And yes, I have plans to provide that functionality in this package too. In fact, if anyone looking to contribute some well defined and easy to test code... :) thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
