On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 11:15:27AM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> > > In 2.5, /sbin/hotplug is called whenever a new device
> > > appears/disappears. It's a script. Add whatever you need to notify X
> > > about the device to that script. You can even connect to X via the X11
> > > protocol and use some extension to tell it about the new mouse.
> > 
> > In recent 2.4.x as well,
> 
> No. You get /sbin/hotplug called for USB devices, which is not exactly
> what you need. 2.5 will call it for Input devices as well. This is
> different, because you get all the info you get from the ioctls passed
> in shell variables. Also it works in an unified way for all input
> devices, be them USB or PS/2 or ADB or whatever ...
> 
> (For USB devices you get both the USB connect and Input connect)

Ahh, argh!

Annoying, but not /that/ much worse I suppose.

The hotplug side is still the simple one.

Zephaniah E. Hull.

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