From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Marco d'Itri" Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 17:00:42 +0000 Subject: Re: udev and DBUS Message-Id: <20040226170042.GA6430@wonderland.linux.it> List-Id: References: <20040217214449.GB12411@wonderland.linux.it> In-Reply-To: <20040217214449.GB12411@wonderland.linux.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Feb 26, David Zeuthen wrote: >Maybe we should remove dbus support from udev and distributions and/or >hardware/hotplug abstractions like HAL can install their own callout >scripts (side-question: is it now as easy to install a callout as with >hotplug e.g. place an executable in /etc/hotplug.d/default/) which sends >a dbus message to a well-defined service (in HAL's case this would be >org.freedesktop.Hal.Manager). I'm not sure if this would work, because I think HAL wants to know which name has just been created by udev. >What do you think? Last week I added this to README.Debian: D-BUS support ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It has been temporarily disabled for many reasons, among them it needing libraries in /usr/lib and introducing a pause of many seconds at boot time. A possible solution could be to build two versions of the daemon, start the bare one in the init script[1] and patch it to exit when SIGUSR1 has been received and the queue is empty. [1] or initrd or initramfs. -- ciao, | Marco | [4766 amIGt4mgevPnk] ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id56&alloc_id438&op=click _______________________________________________ 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