88. Hotplug

provide hotplug (USB, FireWire, PCMCIA) functions

88.1. Authors

  • Klaus Kaempf <kkaempf@suse.de>

  • Arvin Schnell <arvin@suse.de>

88.2. Summary of Module Globals

List of Global Functions

List of Global Variables

  • haveFireWire - if a firewire controller was found and initialized

  • haveUSB - if a usb controller was found and initialized

88.3. Global Functions

88.3.1. StartFireWire

Return value

  • void - probe for firewire type, load appropriate modules, and mount usbfs to /proc/bus/usb

88.3.2. StartUSB

Return value

  • void - probe for usb type, load appropriate modules, and mount usbfs to /proc/bus/usb

88.4. Global Variables

88.4.1. haveFireWire

if a firewire controller was found and initialized

88.4.2. haveUSB

if a usb controller was found and initialized

88.5. Module Requirements

88.5.1. Module Imports

  • Arch
  • HwStatus
  • Linuxrc
  • Mode
  • ModuleLoading

88.5.2. Module Includes