Posts tagged 'hotplug'

• hotplug - Dynamic Hardware Configuration - October 8, 2004

  hotplug is a Linux kernel subsystem that allows you to load modules and run arbitrary scripts based on events like hardware being attached and detached. It does this through a complex system of shell scripts, magic environment and map files, events triggered in the kernel, and so forth. Understanding hotplug is important since it’s only going to get more widely used in later kernel versions. I gave this presentation to the GT LUG to inform people of how hotplug works. No pictures.