Usb hotplug on 2.2 kernels
Some people have mentioned usb hotplug support on 2.2 kernels, as an add on patch. Does it use depmod or does it use a separate hand built table? If it uses depmod, what does struct usb_device_id look like?
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Some people have mentioned usb hotplug support on 2.2 kernels, as an add on patch. Does it use depmod or does it use a separate hand built table? If it uses depmod, what does struct
usb_device_idlook like?
I had talked about doing the backport patch if others thought it would be a good idea, but hadn't gotten to it yet. I don't know of any existing patches that do this (if there are, could someone point me to them?)
I was thinking of using depmod, but due to the latest "mess" with the structures, I hadn't decided what the usb_device_id format would look like. I am leaning toward whatever 2.4.x looks like, to try to preserve compatibility as much as I can.
I also was/am going to test the crap out of it with older versions of modutils, so as not to require any upgrades if the user didn't want to have hotplug support (one of the 2.2.x requirements).
Does that all sound ok?
thanks,
greg k-h
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There's a certain level of support already, as I understand it, which relies on something other than modutils providing the tables mapping device descriptors to driver names.
The current hotplug scripts ship a "usb.distmap" file with that information. Currently generated using a 2.4 build (mostly correct for 2.2.18 drivers).
- Dave
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Some people have mentioned usb hotplug support on 2.2 kernels, as an add on patch. Does it use depmod or does it use a separate hand built table? If it uses depmod, what does struct
usb_device_idlook like?_______________________________________________
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