On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 04:50:26PM +0100, Bahadir Balban wrote: > Hi, > > Is it compulsory to have hotplugging support in userspace in order to > get a device working if it is plugged at run-time? Not if the > necessary modules were built into the kernel I suppose, is that > correct? It depends on the type of device you are adding. > What I want to do is plug-in a USB device, test it or at least inspect > it by sysfs or procfs. The reason I don't have hotplugging is that I > have a minimal filesystem with a limited shell etc. If the driver is already loaded in the kernel, it should work just fine. What are the problems you are having when you tried it? thanks, greg k-h -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
