Re: DEVFSv50 and /dev/fb? (or /dev/fb/? ???)

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 7 Aug 1998 17:06:58 +0100 (BST)


> other than SCSI. I'll even volunteer to do it if required. However,
> I'm not aware of a USB driver for Linux yet and I don't see an
> awful lot of USB devices on the market yet.

USB is coming along nicely.

> Hot plugging has been with us for *ages*. Remember PCMCIA? All you
> need to do is to kick off a "set me up script" when the driver
> detects a device change. Or you can trigger it manually. Or even
> run a "check and set" from cron :-).

And our current support for it in general is crap. PCMCIA works amazingly
well considering how screwball the rest of the kernel support for it is
right now (and will be for 2.2). Post 2.2 there is a general hot plugging
problem - PCI hot plug, USB, PCMCIA, Firewire. The world is going hot plug
for everything

Alan

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.altern.org/andrebalsa/doc/lkml-faq.html