How to make hotplug work

[Bob Chiodini]

On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 11:13 -0400, Gavin Li wrote:
> Bob,
> 
> I traced rc.sysinit from RHFC3 yesterday, the hotplug of USB Flash drive
> starts working after the script load all modules in the Init Hardware stage.
> Then I disabled this script and manually add module by module and I found
> out the USB Flash drive needs these modules to make hotplug work: scsi_mod
> sd_mod usb-storage ehci-hcd, just as you pointed out.
> The weired thing is ehci-hcd is not depended by any other modules. I just
> considered the USB Flash drive only needs the scsi_mod sd_mod and
> usb-storage.
> 
> Thanks for your reply.
> 
> Gavin
> 

Gavin,

I think the ehci_hcd/uhci_hcd provide the low level USB to kernel
interfaces.

On my FC3 system both are aliased to usb_cntroller and usb_controller1
in /etc/modprobe.conf.

Bob...