From kde-devel Mon Apr 29 21:14:24 2002 From: Tim Jansen Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 21:14:24 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: hotplug devices (scripting questions) X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=102011491226759 On Monday 29 April 2002 22:09, Kuba Ober wrote: > Uh, you're right. Hmm, looking at the sources this seems to be an easy > hack. I will give it a shot the coming weekend and if the patches come up > useable, you'll be my first beta-tester ;-). This would be a 2.4.x tree Actually I wrote a patch like this for early 2.4 kernel. It registers the devfs names for all devices and assigns stable device ids. You can find it here: http://www.tjansen.de/devreg > Anyway, knowing how things are on the LKML, this wouldn't get introduced > into 2.4.x until I would cheer up my wife to the idea of having two newborn > kids in coming 24 months and actually getting them delivered, meaning: > never ;-]]]]]]] Unlikely, because it would be hard to make this compatible with 2.5. > I wonder whether the 2.5.x USB stuff (I am a definite development-kernel > chicken and so far I haven't had guts to use them) solves that. Not the USB stuff, but the new device model could solve that. AFAIK it doesn't contain device ids yet, but I haven't looked at the development kernel for a few months. > > And BTW /proc/usb would only help with USB devices. There are, for > > example, Firewire-based hotpluggable webcams. > I'm clueless about firewire :-( You have the same problems with PCMCIA/PC Cards, Hotplug PCI, SCSI... bye... >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<