Re: udevsynthesize as a udevstart+coldplug replacement

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

On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 11:31:19AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Aug 23, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:
> 
> > Here is "udevsynthesize" a possible replacement for the udevstart/coldplug
> > combination we currently have. Usually very early in the boot process, it
> What are the benefits of using C instead of shell scripts?

Nobody knows. I like it, probably. :)
I like to connect directly to the daemon socket and it was easy to do, cause
it's was a bit similar to udevstart.

> An obvious disadvantage is that it would be harder to add support for
> new bus types.

Sure, it's easier to copy another *.rc script than to add a *_handler(),
but udev has a release frequency high enough, that I don't think this would
be a real problem.

We will need to find out _what_ we need to do on coldplug, and not _how_ to do
it, right?

Kay


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