The past rumblings about generalized Linux PNP (USB,
PCCard, SCSI, 1394, hot plug PCI, etc.) have always
been mentioned for the 2.5/2.6 timeframe.
For USB, we're trying to beat that schedule.
~Randy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vojtech Pavlik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 12:58 PM
> To: Jim Gettys
> Cc: Thomas Sailer; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [linux-usb] X support for USB devices...
>
>
> 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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