From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261563AbTLDLy2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2003 06:54:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261733AbTLDLy2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2003 06:54:28 -0500 Received: from inet-mail4.oracle.com ([148.87.2.204]:33686 "EHLO inet-mail4.oracle.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261563AbTLDLy1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2003 06:54:27 -0500 Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 03:54:14 -0800 From: Joel Becker To: Fredrik Tolf Cc: Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Why is hotplug a kernel helper? Message-ID: <20031204115414.GH11065@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> Mail-Followup-To: Fredrik Tolf , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <16334.31260.278243.22272@pc7.dolda2000.com> <20031204011357.GA22506@kroah.com> <16334.38227.433336.514399@pc7.dolda2000.com> <20031204022911.GA23761@kroah.com> <16334.44085.362449.278626@pc7.dolda2000.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <16334.44085.362449.278626@pc7.dolda2000.com> X-Burt-Line: Trees are cool. X-Red-Smith: Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 04:38:29AM +0100, Fredrik Tolf wrote: > Admittedly, I'm still using the RH8 hotplug scripts, and I suspect > improvements have been made since then. I was mainly looking for a way > to auto-mount USB mass storage devices without having to reconfigure > anything as root. I have all the info I need now, though. Hotplug (murasaki in my case) finds the devices just fine. The automounter (autofs for local filesystems) automounts them when I change into the directory. Also just fine. In 2.4, no less. 2.6 as well. Joel -- "The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people." - Lucille S. Harper Joel Becker Senior Member of Technical Staff Oracle Corporation E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127