2001-09-19 release of hotplug scripts

DISCUSSION Greg KH 3 participants 3 messages Sep 20, 2001 USB

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Greg KH

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2001-09-20 00:44 UTC #0 lore raw

I've just packaged up the latest Linux hotplug scripts into a release, which can be found at:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id679

This release adds ieee1394 support and a try at SuSE support :)

Here's the full changelog:
- Added ieee1394.agent from Kristian Hogsberg <[email protected]>
- with docs, "sh -x" debug support, minor fix. Needs kernel 2.4.10 and modutils 2.4.9 to hotplug.
- Some of the updates from SuSE:
* add/use debug_msg macro in hotplug_functions modprobe -s (to syslog)
* various agent tweaks/fixes
* more usb.handmap entries (from usbmgr)
- Added the fxload program
- Rework root makefile and hotplug.spec to install in prefix location without need of spec file for install.
- Added installation directions to make the /var/run/usb directory, and updated the rpm spec file to match.
- added half of Stephen Williams <[email protected]> REMOVER patch. It is up to the install script to create the /var/run/usb directory. Something like the following would be enough:
mkdir /var/run/usb
chmod 0700 /var/run/usb

Thanks,

greg k-h

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David Brownell

2001-09-20 04:42 UTC #1 lore raw

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I've just packaged up the latest Linux hotplug scripts into a release, which can be found at:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id679
This release adds ieee1394 support and a try at SuSE support :)

And various bugfixes ... :)

Quoted 5 lines

Here's the full changelog:
- Added ieee1394.agent from Kristian Hogsberg <[email protected]>
- with docs, "sh -x" debug support, minor fix. Needs kernel 2.4.10 and modutils 2.4.9 to hotplug.

To clarify, the ieee1394 support is what needs software that's as-yet not quite released. Other hotplugging (USB, PCI, network) still works just fine with 2.4.0 (and, for USB, 2.2.current). The release is not (as one person suspected :) Science Fiction!

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- Some of the updates from SuSE:

... excluding most of the SuSE-specific admin stuff, so for now SuSE users will need to get an RPM from SuSE that knows and uses those hooks. (Much like the way the Debian and RedHat distros re-use this software.)

I figure converging admin between such distros is not a near term possibility, but testing for each distro's admin hooks and then using them is achievable. We're not quite there yet, but the size of the distro-specific patches should be shrinking over time ... :)

- Dave

Ryan W. Maple

2001-09-20 05:41 UTC #2 lore raw

In reply to Greg KH

Quoted 10 lines · David Brownell

Quoted 5 lines
Here's the full changelog:
- Added ieee1394.agent from Kristian Hogsberg <[email protected]>
- with docs, "sh -x" debug support, minor fix. Needs kernel 2.4.10 and modutils 2.4.9 to hotplug.
To clarify, the ieee1394 support is what needs software that's as-yet not quite released. Other hotplugging (USB, PCI, network) still works just fine with 2.4.0 (and, for USB, 2.2.current). The release is not (as one person suspected :) Science Fiction!

Actually, it appears that the option to enable CONFIG_HOTPLUG was taken out in 2.2.19, and is not in any of the 2.2.20-pre's. I emailed Greg K-H about this earlier this week.

I enabled it and it's "working for me" with hotplug-2001_04_24. One-liner follows:

drivers/usb/Config.in Sun Dec 10 19:49:43 2000 renamed from drivers/usb/Config.in Sun Mar 25 11:37:37 2001 +1 -0

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 
 comment 'Miscellaneous USB options'
    bool '  Preliminary USB device filesystem' CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS
+   bool '  Support for hot-pluggable USB devices' CONFIG_HOTPLUG
    if [ "$CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL" = "y" ]; then
       bool '  Enforce USB bandwidth allocation (EXPERIMENTAL)' CONFIG_USB_BANDWIDTH
    else

Cheers,
Ryan

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