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From: Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com>
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 11:10:06 +0000
Subject: Re: udevd [was: Re: [RFC/PATCH] input_id: add touchpad quirks
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On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 09:04 -0700, Greg KH wrote:

> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:22:47PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > I consider myself an active member of udev upstream, and I think we've
> > taken a wrong turn with the design and implementation.
>=20
> What specifically do you mean by this?
>=20
> Is the current libudev not a good design for your needs?  What should it
> be instead?
>=20
Actually, quite the opposite!  I think that libudev is a great design.

I think that the wrong turn is that we rely on a massive "cold plug"
phase during boot, and we rely on probing every single piece of hardware
during that phase or on later insertion - whether or not anything on the
system actually cares about the result.

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
scott@ubuntu.com

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