Hello On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:42:18AM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:09:08 +0100, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: > > > I think it is no longer needed and udev should take care of all this. At > > last, I do not have hotplug nor coldplug and inserting/removing all usb > > devices, laptop modules, PCMCIAs works on runtime. > > That's fine with most devices, but causes a problem with network > adaptors. No hotplug system can anticipate your removing the device and > unmount NFS shares before you do it, so the only safe way to remove a USB > NIC is to bring down the interface first.
Yes, sure. It can't unmount it and terminate the connections. However, there is no reason why the device shouldn't be detected again. And, if hotplug can do it, why couldn't udev? I was just saying hotplug is outdated and replaced by udev. -- This email was generated by a biological random generator. If you want more random text, just respond to this email. Michal 'vorner' Vaner
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