Re: 2001-09-19 release of hotplug scripts

[Ryan W. Maple]

On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, David Brownell wrote:

> > Here's the full changelog:
> > - Added ieee1394.agent from Kristian Hogsberg
> >   <[e-mail]>
> > - with docs, "sh -x" debug support, minor fix.  Needs kernel
> >   2.4.10 and modutils 2.4.9 to hotplug.
> 
> To clarify, the ieee1394 support is what needs software that's
> as-yet not quite released.  Other hotplugging (USB, PCI, network)
> still works just fine with 2.4.0 (and, for USB, 2.2.current).  The
> release is not (as one person suspected :) Science Fiction!

Actually, it appears that the option to enable CONFIG_HOTPLUG was taken
out in 2.2.19, and is not in any of the 2.2.20-pre's.  I emailed Greg K-H
about this earlier this week.

I enabled it and it's "working for me" with hotplug-2001_04_24.  One-liner
follows:

--- linux-2.2.19/drivers/usb/Config.in  Sun Mar 25 11:37:37 2001
+++ linux-2.2.18/drivers/usb/Config.in  Sun Dec 10 19:49:43 2000
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 
 comment 'Miscellaneous USB options'
    bool '  Preliminary USB device filesystem' CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS
+   bool '  Support for hot-pluggable USB devices' CONFIG_HOTPLUG
    if [ "$CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL" = "y" ]; then
       bool '  Enforce USB bandwidth allocation (EXPERIMENTAL)' CONFIG_USB_BANDWIDTH
    else

Cheers,
Ryan

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