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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