Changeset 06e7f6e3

Timestamp:

04/16/2005 04:06:59 PM (19 years ago)

Author:

Matthew Burgess <matthew@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.0-rc1, 10.1, 10.1-rc1, 11.0, 11.0-rc1, 11.0-rc2, 11.0-rc3, 11.1, 11.1-rc1, 11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.5-systemd, 7.6, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.7-systemd, 7.8, 7.8-systemd, 7.9, 7.9-systemd, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

8807fbe

Parents:

1e48022

Message:

• Reword handling of hotpluggable devices now that we install the hotplug package

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@4978 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

Files:

• chapter01/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• chapter07/udev.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter01/changelog.xml

@@ -84 +84 @@
 </listitem>
 
+<listitem><para>April 16, 2005 [matt]: Reword handling of hotpluggable devices
+now that we install the hotplug package (Andrew Benton)</para></listitem>
+
 <listitem><para>April 16, 2005 [matt]: Minor wording/typo fixes (Allard Welter)
 </para></listitem>

chapter07/udev.xml

@@ -155 +155 @@
 be called upon to create the relevant device node(s) according to the
 <systemitem class="filesystem">sysfs</systemitem> data available in
-<filename class="directory">/sys</filename>.  If the driver for the
-just plugged in device is available as a module but currently unloaded,
-then attaching the device to the system will only cause the kernel's
-bus driver to generate a hotplug event that notifies userspace of the
-new device connection and it not being attached to a driver. In
-effect, nothing happens and the device itself is not usable
-yet.</para>
-
-<para>If building a system that has a lot of drivers compiled as
-modules rather than directly built into the kernel, using the
-<command>S05modules</command> may not be practical. The Hotplug
-package (see <ulink url="http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net/"/>) can
-be beneficial in these cases. When the Hotplug package is installed,
-it will respond to the aforementioned kernel's bus driver hotplug
-events. The Hotplug package will load the appropriate module and make
-this device available by creating the device node(s) for it.</para>
+<filename class="directory">/sys</filename>.</para>
+
+<para>If the driver for the just plugged in device is available as a module but
+currently unloaded, the Hotplug package will load the appropriate module
+and make this device available by creating the device node(s) for it.</para>
 </sect2>