From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kasper Sandberg Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 14:12:10 +0000 Subject: Re: linux hotplug/hotplug-ng Message-Id: <1124028730.31459.4.camel@localhost> List-Id: References: <1123747167.31868.11.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1123747167.31868.11.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 11:20 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > Yes, as I said above, hotplug-ng is obsolete, you can do everything it > did with just one udev rule :) > > Anyway, here's how things are shaking themselves out: > > udev will replace hotplug and hotplug-ng entirely. It almost does this > already today in the Gentoo tree, but I need to spend a bit more time to > tweak things properly to get it completly there. To do that we will > just rely on the hotplug netlink messages coming out of the kernel and > set /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug to NULL. udev will handle all of these > messages, and shuttle them off to their proper places if needed. > Combine udev with HAL and you pretty much have the full functionality of > the old hotplug package, with lots of extra goodies added (speed, > persistant naming, desktop notification, etc.) > > An example of a distro that does all of this today is SuSE 10, you can > take a look at it in the opensuse download. Kay is the one who got this > all working properly, not me. > > Does this help out any? > yes, allthough i dont understand fully how udev can do this, except if it catches the hotplug messages from the kernel.. your idea seems very good, and i would like to help.. if you are interrested in me helping, you are welcome to msg me on irc(redeeman) or mail me.. > So, thanks for the hotplug-ng ebuild, but it's not going to be necessary > anymore. > > thanks, > > greg k-h > ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ 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