hotplug and discover (was: [Glibc-bsd-commits] r1495 - trunk/web)

[Robert Millan]

Anyone feels like porting hotplug and/or discover?  Should be fairly easy to do,
specialy hotplug which is just a bunch of bash scripts.

(this is one of the prerequisites for d-i, as listed in trunk/web/D-I)

On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 10:25:11AM +0000, Robert Millan wrote:
> +    - Network drivers are still built into the kernel!  In order to split them,
> +    we need:
> +      - hotplug: not hard to port, just a set of scripts (the I/O is done by
> +      pciutils/usbutils, and we have both in working state).
> +      - discover: not too hard either.  Just rewrite the functions in
> +      sysdep/linux/pci.c to use libpci.a instead of /proc.  The rest are ok
> +      with stubs for now (we basicaly only care about PCI nics ;).
> +

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Robert Millan