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"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.
+Newer versions of hotplug have a set of "usermap" files in
/etc/hotplug/usb. (Older versions of hotplug use
a single
file named "/etc/hotplug/
usb.usermap"
.)
This gives the name of scripts to run for particular USB devices.
The file format is:
name_of_script fields_to_match field1 field2 field3 ... field11
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# laser printer
brother_hl1440 0x0003 0x04f9 0x000d 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0
So, when a USB device with vendor ID of 40a and product ID of 170 is inserted, hotplug will run the script named "usbcam" in the /etc/hotplug/usb directory.
-The 0x0003 tells hotplug to match this rule against only the vendor ID (1) + the product ID (2), ignoring all the other fields. You can determine these values by looking at your system logs (eg run dmesg(8)) after insertin
the [USB] device.
+The 0x0003 tells hotplug to match this rule against only the vendor ID (1) + the product ID (2), ignoring all the other fields. You can determine these values by looking at your system logs (eg run dmesg(8)) after inserting
the [USB] device.
+If you have the "usbutils" package installed, you could look in the file "/usr/share/misc/usb.ids" or run the "lsusb" command to get a description of connected USB devices
.
See below for notes about the scripts.
! Notes about editting the usb.usermap file
In the version of hotplug in [Debian] [Woody], you should add your changes to /etc/hotplug/usb.usermap-local and then run
# update-usb.usermap
-In more recent versions of hotplug, (such as Debian Testing/Unstable), it appears you can
create files named /etc/hotplug/usb/{foo}.usermap, for different versions of
foo.
+In more recent versions of hotplug, (such as Debian Testing/Unstable), create files named /etc/hotplug/usb/{foo}.usermap, for each script you have named
foo.
!! USB scripts
Make sure these scripts are executable! Hotplug will set the following environment variables for use by the scripts:
