hotplug - Linux hotplugging support scripts
SYNOPSIS
hotplug [ help | --help | AgentName ]
/etc/init.d/hotplug [start|stop|status|restart|force-
reload|help]
DESCRIPTION
hotplug is a program which is called from kernel, when
some device is detected on USB, PCI, and so on. The pro
gram path name is registered in /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug.
So, it is not necessary to execute this program directly
by hand, it will be executed by automatically.
hotplug calls agent, which is in /etc/hotplug/*.agent,
specified by its argument.
If you execute it without argument, it will show its
usage.
FILES
/sbin/hotplug hotplug program,
registered in /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug
/etc/init.d/hotplug hotplug administrator script
/etc/default/hotplug.usb hotplug USB options,
configured by dpkg-reconfigure -plow hotplug
/etc/hotplug/*.agent hotplug device specific agent
/etc/hotplug/usb.distmap USB device/module map
/etc/hotplug/usb.handmap USB device/module map
/etc/hotplug/usb.usermap USB device/module map (user defined)
/proc/sys/kernel/hotplug hotplug program
AUTHORS
hotplug is developed by Linux Hotplugging Project
http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net/
This manual page was written by Fumitoshi UKAI
<ukai@debian.or.jp>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but
may be used by others), based on original Japanese version
of manpage.
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