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Hotpluggable hardware and removable media handling for Mandriva Linux 2005 (and later)


Starting with Mandriva Linux 2005 LE, HAL (Hardware Abstraction Library) is used extensively to handle hotpluggable hardware (like usb memory stick, digital cameras, removable hard-drives) and removable medias like CD or DVD.

[edit] Chronology

When an new device is plugged on the system, events occur in the following order (schematics can be found on here) :

  • kernel detect new hardware is plugged and call /sbin/hotplug (to load kernel module and notify interested applications) and udev (to create devices in /dev )
  • udev will signal hal daemon (hald) when devices a