Re: 2.6 debian-installer

[Bruce Perens <bruce@perens.com>]

Marco d'Itri wrote:

   * Revise Hotplug pci.rc to use the sysfs mechanism to identify PCI
     devices and thus make it 2.6 compatible.
    

I did, but upstream is very slow at accepting patches.
I also removed all bashisms.

Please send the patches to me.

   * Add these facilities to hotplug:
         o Detect parallel ports. Load the drivers first, then probe them.
         o Detect serial ports. Again, load the drivers first, then
         o Detect monitors on video cards.
    

These are not jobs for hotplug, as the kernel does not provide plug
events for these devices.
  

Plug events aren't provided for boot-time devices, they are enumerated, and all of their plug events are synthesized by their hotplug <bus>.rc scripts. Currently tty devices are enumerated as a class under /sys/class, but not as bus devices. Parallel ports aren't enumerated at all. I will look at enumerating platform and ISA bus devices (I haven't tried the ISA PNP driver). PCI VGA cards are enumerated, and get hotplug events if you have a hot-plug PCI. Once we get an event for them, I think it is OK to query them for their monitor.

   * Add udev to the installer.
    

It's not even remotely ready for production.
(http://www.bofh.it/~md/debian/)
  

OK, I downloaded that.

    Thanks.

    Bruce