source: final-system/common/hotplug.xml@ e53db169

Last change on this file since e53db169 was eac7362, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 19 years ago

r668@server (orig r666): manuel | 2005-11-08 15:25:13 -0800
Removing SBUs and DUs. Chapter final-system, round 6.

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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 <!ENTITY % patches-entities SYSTEM "../../patches.ent">
6 %general-entities;
7 %patches-entities;
8]>
9
10<sect1 id="ch-system-hotplug" xreflabel="Hotplug" role="wrap">
11 <?dbhtml filename="hotplug.html"?>
12
13 <title>Hotplug-&hotplug-version;</title>
14
15 <indexterm zone="ch-system-hotplug">
16 <primary sortas="a-Hotplug">Hotplug</primary>
17 </indexterm>
18
19 <sect2 role="package">
20 <title/>
21
22 <para>The Hotplug package contains scripts that react upon hotplug events
23 generated by the kernel. Such events correspond to every change in the in the
24 kernel state visible in the <systemitem class="filesystem">sysfs</systemitem>
25 filesystem, e.g., the addition and removal of hardware. This package also
26 detects existing hardware during boot and inserts the relevant modules into
27 the running kernel.</para>
28
29 <segmentedlist>
30 <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
31
32 <seglistitem>
33 <seg>Bash, Coreutils, Find, Gawk, and Make</seg>
34 </seglistitem>
35 </segmentedlist>
36
37 </sect2>
38
39 <sect2 role="installation">
40 <title>Installation of Hotplug</title>
41
42 <para>Install the Hotplug package:</para>
43
44<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
45
46 <para>Remove the init script that Hotplug installs since we are going
47 to be using the script included in the LFS-Bootscripts package:</para>
48
49<screen><userinput>rm -rf /etc/init.d</userinput></screen>
50
51 <para>Network device hotplugging is not yet supported by the
52 LFS-Bootscripts package. For that reason, remove the network
53 hotplug agent:</para>
54
55<screen><userinput>rm -f /etc/hotplug/net.agent</userinput></screen>
56
57 <para>Create a directory for storing firmware that can be loaded by
58 <command>hotplug</command>:</para>
59
60<screen><userinput>mkdir /lib/firmware</userinput></screen>
61
62 </sect2>
63
64 <sect2 id="contents-hotplug" role="content">
65 <title>Contents of Hotplug</title>
66
67 <segmentedlist>
68 <segtitle>Installed program</segtitle>
69 <segtitle>Installed scripts</segtitle>
70 <segtitle>Installed files</segtitle>
71
72 <seglistitem>
73 <seg>hotplug</seg>
74 <seg>/etc/hotplug/*.rc, /etc/hotplug/*.agent</seg>
75 <seg>/etc/hotplug/hotplug.functions, /etc/hotplug/blacklist,
76 /etc/hotplug/{pci,usb}, /etc/hotplug/usb.usermap, /etc/hotplug.d,
77 and /var/log/hotplug/events</seg>
78 </seglistitem>
79 </segmentedlist>
80
81 <variablelist>
82 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
83 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
84 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
85
86 <varlistentry id="hotplug">
87 <term><command>hotplug</command></term>
88 <listitem>
89 <para>This script is called by default by the Linux kernel when
90 something changes in its internal state (e.g., a new device is
91 added or removed)</para>
92 <indexterm zone="ch-system-hotplug hotplug">
93 <primary sortas="b-hotplug">hotplug</primary>
94 </indexterm>
95 </listitem>
96 </varlistentry>
97
98 <varlistentry id="hotplug-rc">
99 <term><command>/etc/hotplug/*.rc</command></term>
100 <listitem>
101 <para>These scripts are used for cold plugging, i.e., detecting and
102 acting upon hardware already present during system startup. They are
103 called by the <filename>hotplug</filename> initscript included in
104 the LFS-Bootscripts package. The <command>*.rc</command>
105 scripts try to recover hotplug events that were lost during system
106 boot because, for example, the root filesystem was not mounted by
107 the kernel</para>
108 <indexterm zone="ch-system-hotplug hotplug-rc">
109 <primary sortas="d-/etc/hotplug/*.rc">/etc/hotplug/*.rc</primary>
110 </indexterm>
111 </listitem>
112 </varlistentry>
113
114 <varlistentry id="hotplug-agent">
115 <term><command>/etc/hotplug/*.agent</command></term>
116 <listitem>
117 <para>These scripts are called by <command>hotplug</command> in
118 response to different types of hotplug events generated by the
119 kernel. Their action is to insert corresponding kernel modules
120 and call any user-provided scripts</para>
121 <indexterm zone="ch-system-hotplug hotplug-agent">
122 <primary sortas="d-/etc/hotplug/*.agent">/etc/hotplug/*.agent</primary>
123 </indexterm>
124 </listitem>
125 </varlistentry>
126
127 <varlistentry id="hotplug-blacklist">
128 <term><filename>/etc/hotplug/blacklist</filename></term>
129 <listitem>
130 <para>This file contains the list of modules that should never be
131 inserted into the kernel by the Hotplug scripts</para>
132 <indexterm zone="ch-system-hotplug hotplug-blacklist">
133 <primary
134 sortas="e-/etc/hotplug/blacklist">/etc/hotplug/blacklist</primary>
135 </indexterm>
136 </listitem>
137 </varlistentry>
138
139 <varlistentry id="hotplug-functions">
140 <term><filename>/etc/hotplug/hotplug.functions</filename></term>
141 <listitem>
142 <para>This file contains common functions used by other scripts in
143 the Hotplug package</para>
144 <indexterm zone="ch-system-hotplug hotplug-functions">
145 <primary
146 sortas="e-/etc/hotplug/hotplug.functions">/etc/hotplug/hotplug.functions</primary>
147 </indexterm>
148 </listitem>
149 </varlistentry>
150
151 <varlistentry id="hotplug-subdirs">
152 <term><filename class="directory">/etc/hotplug/{pci,usb}</filename></term>
153 <listitem>
154 <para>These directories contain user-written handlers for hotplug
155 events</para>
156 <indexterm zone="ch-system-hotplug hotplug-subdirs">
157 <primary
158 sortas="e-/etc/hotplug/{pci,usb}">/etc/hotplug/{pci,usb}</primary>
159 </indexterm>
160 </listitem>
161 </varlistentry>
162
163 <varlistentry id="hotplug-usb.usermap">
164 <term><filename>/etc/hotplug/usb.usermap</filename></term>
165 <listitem>
166 <para>This file contains rules that determine which user-defined
167 handlers to call for each USB device, based on its vendor ID and
168 other attributes</para>
169 <indexterm zone="ch-system-hotplug hotplug-usb.usermap">
170 <primary
171 sortas="e-/etc/hotplug/usb.usermap">/etc/hotplug/usb.usermap</primary>
172 </indexterm>
173 </listitem>
174 </varlistentry>
175
176 <varlistentry id="hotplug-hotplug.d">
177 <term><filename class="directory">/etc/hotplug.d</filename></term>
178 <listitem>
179 <para>This directory contains programs (or symlinks to them) that
180 are interested in receiving hotplug events. For example,
181 Udev puts its symlink here during installation</para>
182 <indexterm zone="ch-system-hotplug hotplug-hotplug.d">
183 <primary sortas="e-/etc/hotplug.d">/etc/hotplug.d</primary>
184 </indexterm>
185 </listitem>
186 </varlistentry>
187
188 <varlistentry id="hotplug-firmware">
189 <term><filename class="directory">/lib/firmware</filename></term>
190 <listitem>
191 <para>This directory contains the firmware for devices that need
192 to have their firmware loaded before use</para>
193 <indexterm zone="ch-system-hotplug hotplug-firmware">
194 <primary sortas="e-/lib/firmware">/lib/firmware</primary>
195 </indexterm>
196 </listitem>
197 </varlistentry>
198
199 <varlistentry id="hotplug-events">
200 <term><filename>/var/log/hotplug/events</filename></term>
201 <listitem>
202 <para>This file contains all the events that <command>hotplug</command>
203 has called since bootup</para>
204 <indexterm zone="ch-system-hotplug hotplug-events">
205 <primary
206 sortas="e-/var/log/hotplug/events">/var/log/hotplug/events</primary>
207 </indexterm>
208 </listitem>
209 </varlistentry>
210
211 </variablelist>
212
213 </sect2>
214
215</sect1>
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