From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 20:20:34 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] udev: add rule based program execution Message-Id: <1112214034.4631.76.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: References: <20050329145403.GA16544@vrfy.org> In-Reply-To: <20050329145403.GA16544@vrfy.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by Demarc: A global provider of Threat Management Solutions. Download our HomeAdmin security software for free today! http://www.demarc.com/info/Sentarus/hamr30 _______________________________________________ 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