Re: [PATCH] add USB coldplay support into udevstart

[Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@mandriva.com>]

Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> writes:

> > > the following patch from Olivier Blin adds USB coldplay support
> > > into udevstart (patch is against udev-065):
> > 
> > Care to just change this to work for all busses that might have
> > "modalias" files in them?  USB isn't the only one...
> 
> I don't think, that we want to do this in udevstart, at least at
> it's current state. It will break to many setups, cause all the
> distros have their own way to handle the coldplug case.
> 
> Everything in udevstart is serialized, which may not be optimal for
> all the things to do during a coldplug session, cause every sleeping
> script will delay the whole process.

udev'll serialize event processing anyway...
 
> In general I like the idea and we should experiment what the best
> solution would be: event-replay, coldplug-binary, udevstart +
> coldplug, synthesizing events and pass them to udevd for parallel
> execution...
> But this should happen in a separate binary, so we don't break too many
> things at once. :)

udevstart already performs coldplug regarding classes & block devices.
it's exactly what udevstart was designed for IMHO.



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