hotplug mopup
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- I don't think we can say that the kernel hotplug interface is complete until we have real, working, tested userspace tools. David, could you please summarise the state of play here? In particular, what still needs to be done?
Well, for USB I would like to know which device major/minor entry a newly plugged device is associated with.
Like if I insert a new USB camera, I want to easy find out it is char 81.1 (
/dev/video1). Or if I plugin a USB storage device I want to easy find out it is/dev/sdanow.
How might that relate to devfs integration? It addresses similar problems, and devfsd can call to userspace when such drivers (ones that show up through major/minor device nodes) appear. True, some folk who want to hotplug might want to not run devfs.
- Dave
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