On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 12:59:14PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> This sounds like a huge waste of time - rather than abandoning something
> as immensely useful as hotplug, just get the bug in the USB driver
> fixed! AFAICT all the people having this problem are using really old
> kernels anyway. It's idiotic to abandon hotplug just because you don't
> want to upgrade your kernel to fix a known bug.
Whoa, hang on. I don't have the problem identified by the original
poster. I'm just a thread hijacker ::-).
My particular bias against hotplug is two-fold:
1) It is far more difficult to understand than /etc/rc.d
2) The only USB device I have is a MIDI interface, which I
just want to leave plugged in.
#1 - sometimes, hotplug doesn't "coldplug" my device properly. I
don't really know why, and re-plugging the thing in usually works.
I don't understand why they should be different processes.
It's a minor headache that I'd rather just relieve with a shell
script. Problem is, my Midisport needs firmware loaded. I need to
make use of hotplug's firmware facilities, since I cannot predict
where in /proc/bus/usb/ the device node will appear.
#2 - I don't need hotplugging! This is a desktop machine that never
changes. I have all of one device. hotplug seems a little like
overkill in my degenerate (but probably very common) case.
Trust me - if I was losing mouse and keyboard, I'd be all over that
kernel upgrade!
-- Ross Vandegrift ross@email-addr-hidden "The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell." --St. Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram, Book II, xviii, 37Received on Thu Nov 17 20:15:05 2005
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