Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.1 release

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 08:02:41PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > I'd like to finally announce the previously vapor-ware udev program that
> > I've talked a lot about with a lot of people over the past months.  The
> > first, very rough cut is at:
> > 	kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev-0.1.tar.gz
> 
> Is there a special reason why you call mknod?

I was lazy and trying to get this to work :)

> Otherwise you could simply do:
> 
> 	syscall(SYS_mknod, name, S_IFBLK | mode, dev); 

Yes, I'll switch to this way soon, just have to make sure my version of
dev stays the same size as the kernel's version...

> > Yes, I know there's still a lot of work to do (serialization, symlinks,
> > hooking hotplug so that others can also use it, etc.) but it's a first
> > step :)
> 
> To help serialization and perfomance issues, it might help to add a daemon 
> mode to hotplug. The kernel calls hotplug with a pipe from which it reads 
> the event data, after a certain timeout it can close the pipe and exit.

Yes, this is probably what is going to happen soon.

thanks,

greg k-h