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Various hotplug-related changes

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chapter01/changelog.xml
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@ -78,6 +78,12 @@ first a summary, then a detailed log.</para>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>June 24, 2004 [alexander]: Wordings changed on the hotplug
page</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>June 24, 2004 [alexander]: Removed hotplug isapnp patch for a
while until bugs are fixed</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>June 23, 2004 [matt]: Removed the note regarding the use of
GRUB's --no-mem-option</para></listitem>

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@ -77,12 +77,14 @@ following:</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<!--
<varlistentry>
<term>Hotplug ISAPNP Coldplugging Patch - 1 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&patches-root;hotplug-&hotplug-version;-isapnp-2.patch"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
-->
<varlistentry>
<term>Inetutils Kernel Headers Patch - 1 KB:</term>

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chapter06/hotplug.xml
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@ -11,10 +11,11 @@
<sect2 role="package"><title/>
<para>The Hotplug package contains scripts that react upon various changes
in the kernel state, in particular, addition and removal of hardware. This
package also detects existing hardware during boot and inserts the relevant
modules into the running kernel.
<para>The Hotplug package contains scripts that react upon hotplug events
generated by the kernel. Such events correspond to every change in the
in the kernel state visible in the "sysfs" filesystem, e.g., the addition and
removal of hardware. This package also detects existing hardware during
boot and inserts the relevant modules into the running kernel.
</para>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
@ -28,31 +29,34 @@ modules into the running kernel.
<title>Installation of Hotplug</title>
<para>
Apply the patch that avoids bogus dependencies of the
<command>usb.rc</command> script
upon <application>which</application> and
<application>usbutils</application> packages:
The <command>usb.rc</command> script provided by the
<application>Hotplug</application> package depends on the programs
<command>usbutils</command> and <command>which</command> being present.
However, these programs are not called for any useful purpose.
Apply the patch that removes those dependencies:
</para>
<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../hotplug-&hotplug-version;-bogus_deps-1.patch</userinput></screen>
<para>
USB coldplugging is somewhat broken in Hotplug by default. Fix this with the
following patch:
USB coldplugging is somewhat broken in <application>Hotplug</application>
by default: the DEVICE environment variable is not passed to user-defined USB
hotplug handlers. Fix this with the following patch:
</para>
<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../hotplug-&hotplug-version;-device-2.patch</userinput></screen>
<!-- Waiting for hotplug-2004_04_01-isapnp-4.patch
<para>
At last, there is an optional patch that adds ISAPNP hardware detection
capabilities to Hotplug. It is not well tested. If you chose to apply it,
run the following command:
There is an optional patch that adds ISAPNP hardware detection
capabilities to Hotplug. It is not well tested and in fact contains known
bugs. If you chose to apply it, run the following command:
</para>
<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../hotplug-&hotplug-version;-isapnp-2.patch</userinput></screen>
-->
<para>And finally install the Hotplug package:</para>
<para>Now install the Hotplug package:</para>
<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
@ -61,6 +65,11 @@ the script including with LFS-Bootscripts:</para>
<screen><userinput>rm -rf /etc/init.d</userinput></screen>
<para>Network device hotplugging is not supported by LFS bootscripts yet. For
that reason, remove the network hotplug agent:</para>
<screen><userinput>rm -f /etc/hotplug/net.agent</userinput></screen>
<!-- Will be useless with version 4 of the isapnp patch
<para>
If you have applied the ISAPNP patch, add some required entries to
<filename>/etc/modprobe.conf</filename>:</para>
@ -81,7 +90,7 @@ EOF</userinput></screen>
<para>These entries may not be needed in newer versions of the Linux kernel,
since Marco d'Itri will try to convince developers to put them into the
corresponding modules themselves.</para>
-->
</sect2>
@ -109,8 +118,8 @@ specific actions upon hardware already present during system startup.
They are called by the <filename>hotplug</filename> initscript that comes
from the lfs-bootscripts package.
The <command>*.rc</command>
scripts try to find kernel modules corresponding to your hardware and insert
them into the running kernel.
scripts try to recover hotplug events that were lost during system boot
because, e.g., the root filesystem was not mounted by the kernel.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@ -179,7 +188,7 @@ call for each USB device, based on its vendor, id and other attributes.
<indexterm zone="ch-system-hotplug hotplug-hotplug.d"><primary
sortas="e-/etc/hotplug.d">/etc/hotplug.d</primary></indexterm>
<para>This directory contains programs (or symlinks to them)
that are interested in receiving all hotplug events. E.g.,
that are interested in receiving hotplug events. E.g.,
<application>udev</application> puts its symlink here during installation.
</para>
</listitem>

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!ENTITY version "SVN-20040623">
<!ENTITY releasedate "June 23, 2004">
<!ENTITY version "SVN-20040624">
<!ENTITY releasedate "June 24, 2004">
<!ENTITY milestone "6.0">
<!ENTITY lfs-root "http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/">