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BigIron machines which typically __must__ be running 24 hours a day for mission critical applications allow insertion and removal of almost all the internal hardware, including [RAM] and [CPU]s, although obviously they must first be disabled by the software.
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!!! Hotplug Package
-"hotplug" is also the name of a linux package for managing the drivers/software side of things when hardware changes take place. For example, when [USB] devices are added or removed. There are other types of devices supported, but USB is the predominantly used type.
+"hotplug" is also the name of a linux package for managing the drivers/software side of things when hardware changes take place. For example, when [USB] devices are added or removed. There are other types of devices supported (such as CardBus/[PCMCIA] cards)
, but USB is the predominantly used type.
The way it works is that based on a device's identifying features, you can load different modules and run different scripts.
In the /etc/hotplug directory, there is a file named usb.usermap. This gives the name of scripts to run for particular USB devices.
