From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Viallard Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:38:56 +0000 Subject: Re: Waiting complete insertion of usb device Message-Id: <4AB09610.4030705@patatrac.info> List-Id: References: <4AAF5AC7.6050600@patatrac.info> In-Reply-To: <4AAF5AC7.6050600@patatrac.info> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org Le 15/09/2009 17:28, Greg KH a =E9crit : > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:13:43AM +0200, Anthony Viallard wrote: > >> Hello list, >> >> I'm working on a 3G USB dongle which offer tty to communicate with him. >> >> I need to start a service when this dongle is plugged to my system. This >> service uses tty (there are 4 tty (diag, cmd, data and for voice). So, i >> need to waiting the complete insertion of the USB dongle before >> launching it. >> >> For now, i'm waiting the last tty (ttyUSB3) event, sleep 1 second and >> launch the service. But i think my solution is pretty crap. >> >> Is there a better way to do this ? >> >> (I'm working with old architecture of hotplug: /bin/hotplug script which >> launch /etc/hotplug.d/${SUBSYSTEM}/ scripts...) >> > That architecture is obsolete, and is not shipped, or supported by any > distro or developer, so you are on your own if you want to rely and use > it. > > do you mean my problem will be solved if i use udev ?