* xhotplugd ???
@ 2002-07-21 16:54 kde
2002-07-21 19:45 ` Bernhard Kaindl
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From: kde @ 2002-07-21 16:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-hotplug
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Hi
Has anywork been started concerning the xhotplugd ?
I'm starting to integrate something similiar as the proposed thing into
KDE, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel. Is there already some code I
code reuse or someone who I could cooperate with ?
Kind regards
Joseph Wenninger
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* Re: xhotplugd ???
2002-07-21 16:54 xhotplugd ??? kde
@ 2002-07-21 19:45 ` Bernhard Kaindl
2002-07-25 17:25 ` David Brownell
2002-07-26 15:17 ` Joseph Wenninger
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From: Bernhard Kaindl @ 2002-07-21 19:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-hotplug
> Hi
>
> Has anywork been started concerning the xhotplugd ?
> I'm starting to integrate something similiar as the proposed thing into
> KDE, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel. Is there already some code I
> code reuse or someone who I could cooperate with ?
I don't know anything about the general idea, but I've found GPL code written
by Matthias Elter <elter@kde.org> and Matthias Hoelzer-Kluepfel, both have been
employed at Caldera in Erlangen for some time. Some other distro seems to have
picked it up and an old rpmfind server has an src.rpm saved:
http://at.rpmfind.net/opsys/linux/RPM/lycoris/build44/install/RPMS/khotplug-0.9.7-42rl.i586.html
ftp://at.rpmfind.net/linux/lycoris/build44/rl/install/SRPMS/khotplug-0.9.7-42rl.src.rpm
Bernd
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* Re: xhotplugd ???
2002-07-21 16:54 xhotplugd ??? kde
2002-07-21 19:45 ` Bernhard Kaindl
@ 2002-07-25 17:25 ` David Brownell
2002-07-26 15:17 ` Joseph Wenninger
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From: David Brownell @ 2002-07-25 17:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-hotplug
> http://at.rpmfind.net/opsys/linux/RPM/lycoris/build44/install/RPMS/khotplug-0.9.7-42rl.i586.html
> ftp://at.rpmfind.net/linux/lycoris/build44/rl/install/SRPMS/khotplug-0.9.7-42rl.src.rpm
I took a quick look at this. Its "hotplugd" seems to be scanning
busses and delivering its own event reports to a UNIX socket that's
partially hidden (/var/run/.hotplugd). Then it seems like some KDE
program (which I'll think of as "xhotplugd") interprets those reports.
Some key differences from the kernel hotplug support are:
- Since the kernel is already scanning those busses, this is
duplicating work ... Yet Another Daemon, in this case one
that's not necessary. (Having one was a hotplug anti-goal.)
- It doesn't try to use the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE information
provided by drivers ... has its own tables to update (or more
typically, not update) and get out of sync with the kernel.
- It doesn't even try to use the information provided through
the /sbin/hotplug interface. It's got its own event model.
While the user mode code might be fine (but it didn't compile for
me on RH7.3), I think it'd be better to just come up with a way
to have the /sbin/hotplug code write more standard events to such
a UNIX domain socket.
I'll be glad to see progress on hooking up hotplug events to
GUIs. There are (unfortunately) a number of cases where users
need to make choices when devices appear.
- Dave
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* Re: xhotplugd ???
2002-07-21 16:54 xhotplugd ??? kde
2002-07-21 19:45 ` Bernhard Kaindl
2002-07-25 17:25 ` David Brownell
@ 2002-07-26 15:17 ` Joseph Wenninger
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From: Joseph Wenninger @ 2002-07-26 15:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-hotplug
Hi
On Thursday 25 July 2002 17:25, David Brownell wrote:
> > http://at.rpmfind.net/opsys/linux/RPM/lycoris/build44/install/RPMS/khotpl
> >ug-0.9.7-42rl.i586.html
> > ftp://at.rpmfind.net/linux/lycoris/build44/rl/install/SRPMS/khotplug-0.9.
> >7-42rl.src.rpm
>
> I took a quick look at this. Its "hotplugd" seems to be scanning
> busses and delivering its own event reports to a UNIX socket that's
> partially hidden (/var/run/.hotplugd). Then it seems like some KDE
> program (which I'll think of as "xhotplugd") interprets those reports.
>
I looked at that application too, but it looks more like a hack than a real
solution to me
>
> While the user mode code might be fine (but it didn't compile for
> me on RH7.3), I think it'd be better to just come up with a way
> to have the /sbin/hotplug code write more standard events to such
> a UNIX domain socket.
>
I'm installing an old kde2 now to compile this application
>
> I'll be glad to see progress on hooking up hotplug events to
> GUIs. There are (unfortunately) a number of cases where users
> need to make choices when devices appear.
>
> - Dave
Kind regards
Joseph Wenninger
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