From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 22:36:57 +0000 Subject: Re: export of SEQNUM to userspace Message-Id: <20040901223657.GA24761@vrfy.org> List-Id: References: <20040829203523.GA15526@vrfy.org> In-Reply-To: <20040829203523.GA15526@vrfy.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 02:16:32PM -0400, Greg KH wrote: > On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 10:35:23PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > > Hi Greg, > > we want to init HAL with the last emitted hotplug SEQNUM from the > > kernel. I think of a sysfs file we can read. It would solve the problem > > of the initial timeout, like we have with udevd too (the very first > > event is delayed). > > Ok, that sounds reasonable. > > > What is a proper place to live for this beast? > > I'm getting a lot of requests for odd stuff like this in sysfs. Things > that are "kernel" specific, and aren't associated with any one place > (things that would end up in /proc/sys/kernel if we didn't have sysfs.) > > So, how about /sys/kernel? Sounds good! Who should create the kset (or in this case it's a subsystem) for this? Any hints? Thanks, Kay ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idP47&alloc_id808&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