On Mon, Apr 17, 2000, Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 09:36:01PM -0400, Johannes Erdfelt wrote:
> > Do you have any other ideas for tracking Hot Swap and Plug and Play
> > devices?
>
> What's wrong with expanding the module stuff to handle this? There already
> exists the pre/post stuff for modules. They can do any arbitrary actions,
> including setting up permissions and stuff, I would think.
>
> Also, we already have at least one case where we have to manually store
> information between boots: /dev/random.
>
> Should that information be automatically saved without user support as
> well?
Please go back and read the entire discussion before you get involved.
This has been covered before.
The short of it: It won't work. Devices may be plugged in at times other
than when the module is loaded.
JE
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