harmless(?) hotplug errors on boot

[Tommy Trussell]

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 15:27:19 +0000, easy_target
<ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> I have the same errors and I saw the resolution for them posted in this
> thread, but I'm such a n00b  that I don't even know what these services
> are!
> 
> Can someone please explain that? And what does that resolution do? Does
> it remove them from the start entries? What's hotplug anyway?

My understanding is that hotplug is a way of handling devices in
linux, maybe originally developed to handle devices that can be added
and removed while the system is running (such as USB devices). Since
it has been so handy, I gather that some systems, such as Ubuntu, are
moving toward handling all devices that way. When the system loads
devices during boot, that seems to be called "coldplug."

I'm not sure (in lots of ways I'm stabbing in the dark here) but maybe
because hotplug is relatively new it doesn't yet handle things in a
very friendly way. Hence the errors for devices that apparently don't
exist.

If you go into a terminal and type "man hotplug" (without the quotes)
you'll see some documentation for it but the web site linked on that
man page does a better job of describing what it does:

http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net/

Maybe someone here will push the development along. For example,
wouldn't it be nice if the hotplug system was manageable by an
application so you can see the error messages for particular devices /
buses and the relevant drivers grouped together? (Hmm, where have we
seen THAT before....? ;-) ) It's possible there already IS such an
application, or webmin module, or something...