From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] udev - make exec_callout() reusable
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 03:54:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040110035413.GC6911@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040108183355.GB2788@vrfy.org>
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 02:51:22AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 05:11:14PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 07:33:55PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > > Here is a patch that switches exec_callout() to be reusable.
> > > I want it to be callable in a different context.
> >
> > Care to hint about what context that would be? :)
>
> Oh, I dropped the idea. I wanted that some keys are evaluated by a
> external program, some sort of a tricky callout.
Ah, ok, Pat came and talked to me about something like that today (the
author of the scsi-id program.) I was curious as to what you were
thinking.
> While thinking about it, the idea for dropping all the explicit
> methods came up. The callout method converted to only a PROGRAM= key
> combinable with every other key seems the cleaner solution.
>
> But we never know. Maybe some day we need a free callable exec :)
Heh, I agree. It is nice code to have around :)
greg k-h
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-08 18:33 [PATCH] udev - make exec_callout() reusable Kay Sievers
2004-01-10 1:11 ` Greg KH
2004-01-10 1:51 ` Kay Sievers
2004-01-10 3:54 ` Greg KH [this message]
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