[ale] Hotplug usage

[Pete Hardie]

James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 08:32, Pete Hardie wrote:
> 
>>Anyone on the list used Hotplug under linux?
> 
> 
> I _had_ something working before my lightning strike disaster. Hotplug
> is pretty cool, but it is a real bear to setup. I basically copied a
> setup for something that did work and changed some search strings. The
> data needed for the hotplug file is found in lsusb (assuming you have
> the usb bus stuff in the kernel). 
> A big "gotcha" is to compile in "search all LUNs" in the scsi section.
> This is required for nearly every usb device as they don't seem to show
> up as "device a" but instead as "device a:2" (or something like that)

THat may be part of my problem.  Does stock RH8.0 has this in already?

> 
> The docs on hotplug are not written for users! What is really needed is
> a script that generates hotplug entries from lsusb data and some user
> input. I don't understand enough of it to write one, though.

Agreed.
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