Alan, I had mentioned a couple weeks back that with kernel 2.6.10, the ability to hotplug usb keys in Fedora Core 2 and 3 has been broken. There is actually a bugzilla report on this with some useful information on manifestation of the problem....
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=119140 The problem can be hacked around for the moment in hotplug by repeatedly calling updfstab until the device appears in both /proc/scsi/scsi and /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usb-storage but it would be nice is this could be fixed in the kernel. Hasn't any distributions other than Fedora run into this yet? Jack The hack recommended by Jason Tibbitts that works around this problem is... --- /root/hotplug.functions.sav 2005-02-03 09:17:28.433643468 -0500 +++ hotplug.functions 2005-02-03 09:21:32.336895753 -0500 @@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ # parameters ... handle per-device parameters in apps # (ioctls etc) not in setup scripts or modules.conf LOADED=true + JUST_LOADED=true fi else # This module is already loaded @@ -167,7 +168,18 @@ mesg "missing kernel or user mode driver $MODULE " fi if echo "$MODULE" | grep -q "usb-storage" > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then - [ -x /usr/sbin/updfstab ] && /usr/sbin/updfstab + if [ -x /usr/sbin/updfstab ]; then + INITIAL_SCSI=$(cat /proc/scsi/scsi | wc -l) + COUNT=10 # (big) upper bound of the loop + while [ $COUNT -gt 0 ]; do + sleep 1 + [ "$(cat /proc/scsi/scsi | wc -l)" -gt + "$INITIAL_SCSI" ] && break + COUNT=$(($COUNT - 1)) + done + fi + /usr/sbin/updfstab +# [ -x /usr/sbin/updfstab ] && /usr/sbin/updfstab fi done } ...its ugly of course but at least hotplugging usb keys work again under 2.6.10. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
