From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: /sbin/hotplug invocation for USB devices in 2.5.40
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 21:28:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-103411250020480@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-103406277101783@msgid-missing>
Oliver Neukum wrote:
>> - Don't make hotplug calls for USB devices until we have something
>> for them to do. (Essentially these are a new class of event.)
>>
>> The example that comes to mind is policy agents using those
>> events to choose a non-default device configuration. But USB
>> needs a bunch of work before such things become practical.
>
>
> And reporting the thing to a desktop enviroment.
The software I've heard of that does such things today is perfectly
happy with today's interface level notification.
> The cost is small and the thing is potentially useful.
Equivalently: it's not free, and we don't know what it'd be good for.
That "small and potentially useful" argument is the essence of
feature creep, which is why I don't like it. I'd far rather
see some examples of improvements it would enable ... but I
don't think there are any, since it'd be just a subset of what
we can already do without such calls.
> We discussed such stuff in Cologne and came to the conclusion that
> user space wants all information on device<->interface relationship it
> can get.
It's sitting there in KFS already, nobody's proposing that it be removed.
- Dave
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-08 21:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-08 7:32 /sbin/hotplug invocation for USB devices in 2.5.40 Greg KH
2002-10-08 17:02 ` David Brownell
2002-10-08 17:49 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-10-08 17:55 ` Oliver Neukum
2002-10-08 18:14 ` David Brownell
2002-10-08 18:18 ` Oliver Neukum
2002-10-08 18:18 ` Greg KH
2002-10-08 18:25 ` Greg KH
2002-10-08 21:00 ` David Brownell
2002-10-08 21:17 ` Greg KH
2002-10-08 21:18 ` David Brownell
2002-10-08 21:28 ` David Brownell [this message]
2002-10-08 21:39 ` Greg KH
2002-10-09 15:15 ` David Brownell
2002-10-10 20:35 ` Greg KH
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