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From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cleanup udevstart
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 23:09:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040302230951.GA16956@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040302215536.GA12039@vrfy.org>

 On Tue, Mar 02, Kay Sievers wrote:

> +#define SYSBLOCK		"/sys/block"
> +#define SYSCLASS		"/sys/class"
> +#define UDEV_BIN		"/sbin/udev"

>  	pid = fork();

> -		retval = execl("/sbin/udev", "/sbin/udev", path, NULL);

I have not looked closer at it, wouldnt it be better to feed the udevdb
directly, instead of spawning countless udev processes? Some sort of
udev binary which takes optional directories as agument to limit it to
these sysfs dirs.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-03-02 23:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-02 21:55 [PATCH] cleanup udevstart Kay Sievers
2004-03-02 22:16 ` Greg KH
2004-03-02 23:09 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2004-03-02 23:20 ` Greg KH
2004-03-02 23:23 ` Olaf Hering
2004-03-02 23:32 ` Greg KH
2004-03-15 21:22 ` Olaf Hering
2004-03-16  1:28 ` Kay Sievers
2004-03-16  2:49 ` Kay Sievers
2004-03-16 17:01 ` Patrick Mansfield
2004-03-16 21:57 ` Kay Sievers
2004-03-16 22:24 ` Patrick Mansfield

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