From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 04:55:34 +0000 Subject: Re: communication between applications and hotplugd Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 09:47:09PM +0000, Joseph Wenninger wrote: > > I'm implementing an application for KDE, which would need information about > plugging/unplugging devices, device types and if possibly major/minor device > numbers (or device node names corresponding with the newly added/removed > devices). driverfs combined with /sbin/hotplug will provide this information to you in 2.5 soon. Pat Mochel and I just presented how this will be done at the 2002 Ottawa Linux Symposium. I don't know if the talks are online yet, but later this week, we'll have something written down and post it to lkml for how it will all work. Basically driverfs will export the major/minor number for the device, and /sbin/hotplug will be called when the device shows up or disappears. With this, devfs is no longer needed, and all of the naming policy can move to userspace. More details later, I'm supposed to be on vacation right now :) thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ 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