On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Andrew Fuller wrote:
> I've come across several posts on this list trying to get the MP-8866
> working while I was Googling trying to get my own to work. I've now
> got a hack to make it work, which I'm posting here to help those who
> are still struggling. I also want to call out to any who might know
> what's going on with this so that we can get a proper fix and get it
> included in the appropriate project.
>
> My hack to make it work:
>
> In the file /etc/hotplug/hotplug.functions, around line 85 you should have
> this:
>
> # should we use usbmodules, pcimodules? not on 2.5+, because sysfs
> # ought to expose the data we need to find all candidate drivers.
> # (on 2.5.48 it does for usb; but maybe not yet for pci.)
> case "$KERNEL" in
> 2.2*|2.3*|2.4*) LISTER=`which ${TYPE}modules` ;;
> *) LISTER="" ;;
> esac
>
> Change the 2nd to last line to the following:
>
> *) LISTER=`type -p ${TYPE}modules` ;;
>
> This screams of an error, because now there's essentially no check for
> $KERNEL; LISTER will always be usbmodules (we're talking about our USB
> device here, ignore other use cases) but we're using kernel 2.6, and
> this code was explicitely put in to turn that OFF for 2.6 kernels....
>
> However, I'm not the only one who had this line change work for them.
> See the post on the Gentoo forums here:
>
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-417681.html
>
> So where does the real problem lie? Is the USB module not exposing
> something properly in the sysfs that the comment in hotplug.functions
> refers to? Is it a shortcoming of sysfs? Is it a problem in hotplug,
> and we really should be using usbmodules even with a 2.6 kernel? Is
> it a problem in hotplug in the way it deals with items when usbmodules
> is .not. used?
>
> I would really like a proper fix for this. I'm happy to try out /
> debug anything people can come up with to fix it.
Try posting your question on the linux-hotplug-devel mailing list. It's
more likely to get a response there.
Alan Stern
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