On Tue Oct 14, 2008 at 09:13:31 +0200, Gianfranco Ricci wrote:
I am working on a project that makes it necessary to have some agent application with hardware detection capabilities.
Therefore my question is, if there is any L4 library or kernel interface that can be used to get information on detected and hot-plugged hardware in the system. Best would be a solution that provides callbacks to get informed on any change in the hardware automatically.
The handling of hot-plugging must be done by those drivers which are handling this piece of hardware. E.g. if you have a USB host controller driver, this driver will get notifications and can then propagate those to others. There's currently no driver (infrastructure) which is doing hot-pluging, AFAIK. L4Linux is an exception but it's probably not counting here.
Adam