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From: Michal 'vorner' Vaner <vorner@×××.cz>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Unplugging USB wireless adapter
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:02:43
Message-Id: 20080328140239.GA852@tarantula.kolej.mff.cuni.cz
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Unplugging USB wireless adapter by Neil Bothwick
1 Hello
2
3 On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:42:18AM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote:
4 > On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:09:08 +0100, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote:
5 >
6 > > I think it is no longer needed and udev should take care of all this. At
7 > > last, I do not have hotplug nor coldplug and inserting/removing all usb
8 > > devices, laptop modules, PCMCIAs works on runtime.
9 >
10 > That's fine with most devices, but causes a problem with network
11 > adaptors. No hotplug system can anticipate your removing the device and
12 > unmount NFS shares before you do it, so the only safe way to remove a USB
13 > NIC is to bring down the interface first.
14
15 Yes, sure. It can't unmount it and terminate the connections. However,
16 there is no reason why the device shouldn't be detected again. And, if
17 hotplug can do it, why couldn't udev?
18
19 I was just saying hotplug is outdated and replaced by udev.
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25 Michal 'vorner' Vaner