Re: [PATCH 2.6.12-rc4] Add EXPORT_SYMBOL for hotplug_path

[Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>]

On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 14:07 -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On 5/20/05, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Well, it doesn't depend on "make it private" it depends on Dimitry, who
> > wanted to tweak our patch for the input layer. But we wait for weeeks
> > for that. The SUSE kernel already ships a driver-core input layer
> > without the /sbin/hotplug stuff.
> >
> 
> Kay,
> 
> I am sorry for being slow with these patches but I really do spend all
> time that I can on kernel.

Oh well, I know that problem. :) We need to move completely away from
unmanaged kernel-forked processes in the hotplug area. SUSE 9.3 already
ships a udevd that listens only on netlink for hotplug messages
and /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug is set to "".
Hannes converted the input layer to a input_device class to get the
event through netlink. Maybe you can have a second look at it, so that
we can get that thing upstream soon to fix the last broken hotplug-user
and make hotplug_path finally private.

Thanks,
Kay