On 7/3/05, Matthew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

<snip>

> Well, this is an interesting point.  I was going to point you at
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/6.1-pre1/chapter07/udev.html
> (7.4.2, paragraph 4 in particular), but that completely fails to mention
> how the driver modules are actually loaded, in order to register
> themselves in /sys).
> 
> Anyone care to hit me with the cluebat on this one?  So far the chain of
> events is:
> 

>From udev-047, udevd is capable of handling hotplug events from
modules, as well as devices, and knows to call the appropriate hotplug
rc script related to the module. (at module load, a hotplug event is
generated by the kernel, and calls whatever is defined as the hotplug
handler).

The udev package contains some (out of date) docs regarding event
handling and modules - the Changelog specifies the fact that udevd now
handles module events.

-- -
Steve Crosby
--
http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support
FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html
Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Reply via email to