Hotplug not hotplugging.
Sam Varshavchik
mrsam at courier-mta.com
Sun Nov 14 15:26:10 UTC 2004
James McKenzie writes:
> Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>
>> I just got around with playing with the USB ports on my generic laptop
>> from LAC that's running FC2+kernel 2.6.8-1.521
>>
>> If I have my camera plugged in when FC2 boots, I can open and use the
>> camera just fine. lsusb sees a Sony camera. When I pull it out,
>> usb-storage gets properly deregistered, as it should.
>>
>> If I plug the camera in after the kernel boots, nothing happens.
>> Zilch. No kernel messages, nothing whatsoever. The camera does see
>> the cable connection, and flips over to USB mode as soon as the
>> cable's connected, but nothing happens on the Linux side. lsusb shows
>> nothing. I see nothing happening in /proc/bus/usb. When I reboot,
>> the camera is accessible again.
>>
>> Where do I need to look?
>>
>>
> Sam:
>
> What does dmesg say when you plug and unplug the camera?
Absolutely nothing.
This is definitely a kernel bug in 2.6.8. If I boot the 2.6.6-1.435.2.3
kernel errata for FC2, hotplugging begins to work again. For some reason
SCSI emulation gets initializes as /dev/sdb, instead of /dev/sda, though.
No clue why /dev/sda is already taken.
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