Re: New hotplug interface is not working right for me

["Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>]

Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>:
> On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 14:07 -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>:
> > > > Will gps.dev will be executed on every tty activation, or just
> > > > when a gps%e node gets created?   
> > > 
> > > Yes, that is right.
> > 
> > Your answer is ambiguous.  Which arm of the disjunct are you referring to?
> 
> The first one. It will get executed for every tty.

That's what I thought you were going to tell me.  Oh, well.

OK.  My descision is that I'm going to stick with old-style hotplug
until udev is a bit more mature.  I have a hotplug agent that works,
and I doubt distro makers will break it in the forseeable future, because
tremendously popular USB cameras rely on the same mechanism.

But I like the udev approach better, and when It grows the right kind
of event filtering that I needn't worry about causing nasty amounts of
boot lag, I'll move to it.

I support the proposed HOTPLUG key and Kay's proposal for an
additional rules file.  But I'm not attached to either.

Thanks for the help and explanations.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>


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