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From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] udev: add rule based program execution
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 20:20:34 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1112214034.4631.76.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050329145403.GA16544@vrfy.org>

On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 11:21 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 04:54:03PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > This patch on top of the current bk-tree allows to specify programs to
> > be executed after the device handling. This is meant as a general
> > replacement for the dev.d/ logic which is known to be the main reason for
> > the boot-time delay on udev systems.
> > 
> > This patch introduces the HOTPLUG key. Every matching rule can add one
> > HOTPLUG key to a list of program to be executed after the node is
> > created/removed.
> 
> I like this, except for the name of the key.  The term "hotplug" is just
> too overloaded these days.  Can you change it to something else.

You are right! HOTPLUG says nothing and that key should be renamed.

> Perhaps NOTIFIER?  That more explicitly states what this rule is going
> to do.

How does AGENT sound? It's a bit shorter, but hey, NOTIFIER is still
shorter than SUBSYSTEM. :)

Kay



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-03-30 20:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-29 14:54 [PATCH] udev: add rule based program execution Kay Sievers
2005-03-29 15:20 ` Kevin P. Fleming
2005-03-30  7:39 ` Roman Kagan
2005-03-30 12:05 ` Kay Sievers
2005-03-30 14:08 ` Roman Kagan
2005-03-30 17:29 ` Kay Sievers
2005-03-30 19:21 ` Greg KH
2005-03-30 20:20 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2005-04-01  0:18 ` Greg KH
2005-04-01  7:30 ` Kay Sievers
2005-04-02  6:54 ` Greg KH

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