hotplug change in tomorrow's build
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Tue Sep 21 05:34:59 UTC 2004
Dax Kelson (dax at gurulabs.com) said:
> 1) Is it worth supporting those with wireless nics requiring firmware
> and who also want to mount / via NFS? This requires firmware loading in
> the initial ram disk.
Well, it's not going to work out of the box, but neither is
net booting without hacks. I suppose you'd need to modify
mkinitrd.
> 2) Will Fedora/RHEL be shipping with /lib/firmware directory
> pre-populated with ipw* firmware?
Not to the best of my knowledge.
> 3) Any idea what's the semantics with hotplug vs /etc/dev.d/? What's the
> defined interaction? Is it possible for hotplug to trigger but not udev
> or vice versa?
hotplug is called by the kernel, hotplug then calls udev, which
then calls dev.d scripts.
Bill
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