Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 16:44:52 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Razvan Gavril <razvan.g@plutohome.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Coldpluging or USB Issues ?
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On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 11:25:05AM +0300, Razvan Gavril wrote:
> As far as i know since 2.6.15 there is a new coldplug mechanism using 
> uevent and switching to a newer version of udevd that can do the cold 
> plugging and replacing the old hotplug scripts would be the natural next 
> step but before doing this i need to ask some questions like :
> 1) Where there any changes sine 2.6.15 that could cause the old hotplug 
> scripts to work reliable because most part of the time (95%) they are 
> working ?

I don't know, what is failing?

> 2) Upgrading to newer version of udevd to let the udev scripts to do 
> the coldpluging can solve any issues that where described ?

Probably, that's what all of the major distros have already done.  It
makes the startup logic much smaller and simpler.

This should be continued on the linux-hotplug-devel mailing list if you
are interested.

thanks,

greg k-h
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