Re: hotplug and /etc/init.d/hotplug

[David Jez <dave.jez@seznam.cz>]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 01:53:46PM +0200, sting sting wrote:
> Hello,
  Hi,

> I am running RedHat 9 with 2.4.20-8  kernel ;
> Now , I have a questo about hotplug:
> I have hotplug-2002_04_01-17 installed (rpm);
> 
> Now , I read the readme of this rpm ;
> in their "installing"  section , clause 5 , it says:
> # cp etc/rc.d/init.d/hotplug /etc/rc.d/init.d/hotplug
> # cd /etc/rc.d/init.d
> # chkconfig --add hotplug
> 
> I checked on my machine and there is no "hotplug" file in that folder.
> Nevertheless, hotplugin works (because when I plug a USB camera
> I can see in the kernel log (/var/log/messages)  messages which start with
> /etc/hotplug/usb.agent
> 
> I also looked at the kernel code (method "call_polcy" in usb.c )
> and it doesn't seems to me that the hotplug in /etc/init.d is needed .
> 
> can anybody make some clarifications ?
  Don't worry about it :-)
  /etc/init.d/... file is script for bring up hotplug subsytem... for
usb it means: modprobe module for usb host controller adapter and mount
/proc/bus/usb ...
  Hotplugin works because usb subsystem execute /sbin/hotplug binary...

  Is that enought?
> sting
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