Re: The Next Generation

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 12:59:52AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Feb 26, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> 
> > Now we _can_ build hotplug-ng out of udev pieces and parts, that I don't
> > have a problem with.  And, if udev is running on a box, have it handle
> > the hotplug functionality is also an acceptable thing (as long as
> > nothing external to udev has to change, like the scripts in
> > /etc/hotplug.d/).  But we can't mandate that udev must be used, sorry.
> This was my first objection, but what's wrong with disabling the pieces
> of udev which deal with devices creation and use the infrastructure for
> hotplug?

There is nothing wrong with that, and I intend to do that (actually, if
you look at the current code, it is just that...)

> > 	- be a drop in replacement (through other helper programs) to
> > 	  the existing linux-hotplug module loading scripts.
> .oO(no blacklisting support yet... :-) )

Oh, I know :)

thanks,

greg k-h


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