One widely used hardware autodetection and probing tool is ?Kudzu. Hotplug doesn't have it's own database of module mappings (it uses the running kernel's modules.*map) and will therefore never get outdated.Ĭurrently, Hotplug is the only mature software to handle hotplug.
The development of Discover is led by Progeny and it has its own homepage.Įven though hotplug wasn't mean to handle coldplugging it can handle it nowadays. In Etch, it installs discover1 and udev by default. In Sarge, DebianInstaller installs discover and ?hotplug by default.
