Re: [PATCH] udev: add rule based program execution

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 09:30:35AM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 16:18 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 10:20:34PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 11:21 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 04:54:03PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > > > > This patch on top of the current bk-tree allows to specify programs to
> > > > > be executed after the device handling. This is meant as a general
> > > > > replacement for the dev.d/ logic which is known to be the main reason for
> > > > > the boot-time delay on udev systems.
> > > > > 
> > > > > This patch introduces the HOTPLUG key. Every matching rule can add one
> > > > > HOTPLUG key to a list of program to be executed after the node is
> > > > > created/removed.
> > > > 
> > > > I like this, except for the name of the key.  The term "hotplug" is just
> > > > too overloaded these days.  Can you change it to something else.
> > > 
> > > You are right! HOTPLUG says nothing and that key should be renamed.
> > > 
> > > > Perhaps NOTIFIER?  That more explicitly states what this rule is going
> > > > to do.
> > > 
> > > How does AGENT sound? It's a bit shorter, but hey, NOTIFIER is still
> > > shorter than SUBSYSTEM. :)
> > 
> > AGENT is again, a term that is very overloaded in the computing field.
> > I still like NOTIFIER, but if you really don't like that...
> 
> Heh, seems we don't have bigger problems these days. :)
> Last try for a shorter key name. What about RUN?

Ok, that's fine with me.  Anyone not like this?

thanks,

greg k-h


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