Datasheet

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The Hotplug System

The hotplug system under SUSE LINUX was developed in connection

with the Linux Hotplug project, but it has a few distinguishing features.

The main difference is that, under SUSE LINUX, the scripts /sbin/hwup

and /sbin/hwdown are used instead of the event multiplexer /etc/

hotplug.d to initialize or stop hotplug devices.

I S/390, zSeries

Many of the hardware and software characteristics described in this chap-

ter are not the same on IBM S/390 and zSeries machines. J

14.1 Devices and Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

14.2 Hotplug Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

14.3 Hotplug Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

14.4 Automatic Module Loading . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

14.5 Network Devices and Interface Designations . . . 321

14.6 Hotplug with PCI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

14.7 Coldplug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

14.8 Error Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322