Return-Path: Received: from hermes.mvista.com ([unix socket]) (authenticated user=mbellon bits=0) by hermes.mvista.com (Cyrus v2.1.9) with LMTP; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 12:43:39 -0800 X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 2.2 Return-Path: Received: from av.mvista.com (av.mvista.com [10.0.0.15]) by hermes.mvista.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h9RKhcx26036 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 12:43:38 -0800 Received: from apocalypse.mvista.com (av [127.0.0.1]) by av.mvista.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA24758 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 12:43:43 -0800 Received: (qmail 2649 invoked by alias); 27 Oct 2003 20:43:43 -0000 Delivered-To: mbellon@mvista.com Received: (qmail 2636 invoked from network); 27 Oct 2003 20:43:42 -0000 Received: from vger.kernel.org (67.72.78.212) by apocalypse.mvista.com with SMTP; 27 Oct 2003 20:43:14 -0000 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263494AbTJ0Umb (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2003 15:42:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263497AbTJ0Umb (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2003 15:42:31 -0500 Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([12.44.186.158]:47601 "EHLO av.mvista.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263494AbTJ0Um3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2003 15:42:29 -0500 Received: from mvista.com (av [127.0.0.1]) by av.mvista.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA24640 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 12:42:27 -0800 Message-ID: <3F9D8332.3060003@mvista.com> Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 13:42:26 -0700 From: Mark Bellon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: ANNOUNCE: User-space System Device Enumeration (uSDE) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA,X_MAILING_LIST version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) Initial availability of User-Space System Device Enumeration (uSDE) package, version 0.74, can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/usde The uSDE provides an open framework for the enumeration (specification) of system devices in a dynamic environment. Device handling is implemented via plug-in programs known as policy methods. Policy methods are free to handle their devices in any way, from trivial to complex - anything from providing LSB device nodes to persistent device name handling with replacement and relocation strategies. The uSDE depends on /sbin/hotplug (for dynamic insertions and removals), sysfs (for device information) and /proc (various pieces of information). It is not dependent on initrd - it explicitly scans sysfs upon system startup to determine the initial device ensemble. Part of the uSDE release is a collection of sample polices: disk-ide-policy - handles IDE, EIDE, SATA and USB-EIDE disks. Implements persistent device naming, automatic device replacement and automatic device relocation features. disk-scsi-policy - handles SCSI, IEEE-1394, FibreChannel and USB-SCSI disks including multiported devices. Iplements persistent device naming, automatic device replacement and automatic device relocation features. multipath-policy - handles the automatic provisioning of multipathing for multiported storage devices. ethernet-policy - handles ethernet interefaces. Implements persistent interface naming, interface anchoring, automatic device replacement and automatic device relocation features. floppy-policy - handles internal floppy disks. simple-device-policy - a "catch all" policy for block and character devices. devfs-policy - provides devfs device names. lsb-policy - provides LSB device names. Location: http://sourceforge.net/projects/usde Mailing list: usde-general@lists.sourceforge.net mark - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/