linux-kernel - Re: usb hotplug and hooking

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Date:	Mon, 2 Mar 2009 15:34:58 +0000
From:	Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@...oo.com>
To:	Oguz Yarimtepe <comp.ogz@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: usb hotplug and hooking

Hello,

On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 03:39:41PM +0200, Oguz Yarimtepe wrote:
> I want to run an application when an external usb flash disk is plugged to
> my box machine that has STLinux installed in it. My aim is to check some
> issues on usb disk, whether it has an official software or not. I am not
> sure how will i hook my own application that will check usb device
> when it is plugged. I don't want the application run at the
> background, but run only when a plug is occured.

I think these days that problem tends to be handled by HAL
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/hal and some software listening
to HAL events on dbus . If you are using KDE or GNOME both of these have
tools for automatically running software when devices are detected
(GNOME uses gnome-volume-manager and I think KDE has media://ioslave).

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