Re: [linux-usb] X support for USB devices...

[Vojtech Pavlik]

On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 08:14:13AM -0700, Jim Gettys wrote:
> Thanks for the answer.
> 
> The question it begs is can we rely on the usbdevfs being mounted?
> 
> It also begs a second question: why should this functionality be
> limited to USB?  One might imagine that one could have similar behavior
> on other busses (e.g. PCMCIA, Firewire).  Is this a feature that should
> be generic to Linux, (I suspect so), or specific to USB?
>                               - Jim

There definitely should be some support for hotplugging and some more
than the current infrastructure for busses. However, this is a very hot
ground to play on and there were many flamewars in the past about how to
do it. Slowly, solutions emerge. I hope it'll all work out sooner or
later and we will have something which will work for all kinds of
busses, will allow autoloading of modules based on device IDs et cetera.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs

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