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diff --git a/Documentation/usb/hotplug.txt b/Documentation/usb/hotplug.txt index f53170665f3..6424b130485 100644 --- a/Documentation/usb/hotplug.txt +++ b/Documentation/usb/hotplug.txt @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ immediately usable. That means the system must do many things, including: - Bind a driver to that device. Bus frameworks do that using a device driver's probe() routine. - + - Tell other subsystems to configure the new device. Print queues may need to be enabled, networks brought up, disk partitions mounted, and so on. In some cases these will @@ -33,9 +33,9 @@ you get the best hotplugging when you configure a highly modular system. KERNEL HOTPLUG HELPER (/sbin/hotplug) -When you compile with CONFIG_HOTPLUG, you get a new kernel parameter: -/proc/sys/kernel/hotplug, which normally holds the pathname "/sbin/hotplug". -That parameter names a program which the kernel may invoke at various times. +There is a kernel parameter: /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug, which normally +holds the pathname "/sbin/hotplug". That parameter names a program +which the kernel may invoke at various times. The /sbin/hotplug program can be invoked by any subsystem as part of its reaction to a configuration change, from a thread in that subsystem. @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ USB MODUTILS SUPPORT Current versions of module-init-tools will create a "modules.usbmap" file which contains the entries from each driver's MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE. Such files can be used by various user mode policy agents to make sure all the -right driver modules get loaded, either at boot time or later. +right driver modules get loaded, either at boot time or later. See <linux/usb.h> for full information about such table entries; or look at existing drivers. Each table entry describes one or more criteria to |