Bug 7067

Summary:	Hotplug modules loader for USB,Cardbus,network,IEEE1394
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Julien Ponge <julien>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	x86-kernel (DEPRECATED) <x86-kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	azarah, flash3001, hanno, latexer, mholzer
Priority:	High	Keywords:	EBUILD
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.dotaster.com/~shuu/linux/murasaki/
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Musaraki sources tarball

Description Julien Ponge 2002-08-26 13:15:45 UTC

Hi all,

Murasaki is a usefull utility, extending its 'ancestor' usbmgr that loads the
required modules for a hotplug device. For instance if you have a laptop, you'll
be very happy of having this tool when you (un)plug a USB mouse for instance.
It's not a gadget, it's really powerfull.

I would have make an ebuild for that, but unfortunately I don't have a Gentoo
box running for the moment. I broke a 1.2 and I'm waiting for the 1.4 to get
back to this marvellous distro :-)

It runs on any 2.4.x kernel with the "HotPlug" support enabled and the desired
devices support compiled as modules.

Best regards.

Comment 1 Julien Ponge 2002-08-26 13:17:49 UTC

Created attachment 3436 [details]
Musaraki sources tarball

Here's the Musaraki sources tarball.

Comment 2 Wout Mertens (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-03-19 08:33:11 UTC

How does this relate to sys-apps/hotplug? Is it different?

Comment 3 Julien Ponge 2003-05-20 02:38:27 UTC

I used to run this on my Debian days for my laptop. I haven't given it a try since then, but yes, I think it is different. Thinking about it now, I assume hotplug/kudzu can be a good system. However providing it as an alternative wouldn't be a bad idea. Cheers.

Comment 4 Roger 2003-10-10 21:20:44 UTC

Mandrake had a /etc/init.d/ieee1394 script that did that same. ...which was
probably a duplication of the script merged with an rc script.

I'm surprised that Gentoo is missing this rc script.

Comment 5 Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-03-20 11:16:48 UTC

The hotplug package does this functionality, the musaraki package is not needed.