97. Hotplug

provide hotplug (USB, FireWire, PCMCIA) functions

97.1. Authors

  • Klaus Kaempf <kkaempf@suse.de>

  • Arvin Schnell <arvin@suse.de>

97.2. 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

97.3. Global Functions

97.3.1. StartFireWire

Return value

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

97.3.2. StartUSB

Return value

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

97.4. Global Variables

97.4.1. haveFireWire

if a firewire controller was found and initialized

97.4.2. haveUSB

if a usb controller was found and initialized

97.5. Module Requirements

97.5.1. Module Imports

  • Arch
  • HwStatus
  • Linuxrc
  • Mode
  • ModuleLoading

97.5.2. Module Includes