Re: udev and dbus

[Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>]

On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 18:14, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 16:06, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > > We can rip dbus out and make a external dbus caller, yes that's fine.
> > > But dbus should use the /sbin/hotplug multiplexer. Just get the needed
> > > information with udevinfo and then fire up the dbus-client.
> > 
> > This I would recommend against - not every hotplug event makes udev
> > create/remove a device node; networking devices are one example. 
> 
> Zero argument! You want udev to call scripts for a device it doesn't
> handle itself, with a empty NODES environment? That's definitely nothing
> more than misuse of infrastructure.

Oh, seems like I did get you wrong? Sorry.
Nevermind, dbus installs it's own hotplug script independend of the udev
dbus connection. So maybe these both scripts may be combined into one?

Just look at Rob's presentation:
http://tech9.net/rml/talks/rml_fosdem_2004.sxi

Kay



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