abuse of udev for non-hardware items

abuse of udev for non-hardware items

[Bill Nottingham]

Currently, we have various 'filesystems' in the kernel, such
as mque, rpc_pipefs, binfmt_misc, and others.

Currently, to run actions on filesystem registration, you have
to hook into modprobe.conf, and run it when the filesystem module
is loaded. If the filesystem is built in statically, you're SOL.

Would it be possible, and desirable, to hook filesystem registration/
deregistration into the events passed to udev, so they could be
handled that way?

Bill


-------------------------------------------------------
SF.Net email is sponsored by:
Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download
it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own
Sony(tm)PSP.  Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php
_______________________________________________
Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list  http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net
Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel

Re: abuse of udev for non-hardware items

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 02:31:03PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 
> Would it be possible, and desirable, to hook filesystem registration/
> deregistration into the events passed to udev, so they could be
> handled that way?

These already generate netlink events, and I think that HAL already
catches them, right?  If so, you can just listen for the HAL generated
messages.

What would you want udev to do with these kinds of notifications?

thanks,

greg k-h


-------------------------------------------------------
SF.Net email is sponsored by:
Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download
it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own
Sony(tm)PSP.  Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php
_______________________________________________
Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list  http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net
Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel