Re: about split the udev

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 04:37:22AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 02:00:29AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 04:34:08PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 12:01:29AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Here is the next updated updated version to apply to the lastet udev.
> > > > I've added infrastructure for getting the state of the IPC queue in the
> > > > sender and set the program to exec by the daemon. Also the magic key id
> > > > is replaced by the usual key generation by path/nr.
> > > 
> > > Very nice, I applied this.
> > > 
> > > > It looks promising, I use it on my machine and my 4in1 USB-flash-reader
> > > > connect/disconnect emits the events "randomly" but udevd is able to
> > > > reorder it and calls our normal udev in the right order.
> > > 
> > > Hm, how are you supposed to start up udevd?  like:
> > > 	./udevd ./udev
> > 
> > This should work, I've only tried './udevd /sbin/udev' and './udevd /bin/true' :)
> > And '/sbin/udev' is the default.
> > 
> > > 
> > > > Should we start the daemon if noone listens, when the sender is called?
> > > 
> > > Yes.
> > 
> > I will try it during the weekend.
> > 
> > 
> > > > Should we convert our udev to a daemon, or stay with the exec?
> > > 
> > > I don't know.  I was thinking of turning our udev into the daemon, but
> > > with this structure we might not need to.  Let's play around with this
> > > current structure for a bit now and see how it works out.
> > 
> > Fine, I like it and we can use it for anything that expects a hotplug
> > event and if someone don't like the reorder daemon he may use udev
> > directly.
> 
> Sorry, some code is missing.
> Here is a fix to make the exec functional.
> Could you please change 'test/udevd_test.sh' to executable and add
> udevd und udevsender to the ignore file.

I already made udevd_test.sh executable, and made some whitespace
changes to udevd.c which cause this patch to not apply.  Care to pull
again and send the resulting diff?

thanks,

greg k-h


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