From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 08:10:06 +0000 Subject: Re: export of SEQNUM to userspace Message-Id: <20040902081005.GA32239@kroah.com> 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 Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 12:36:57AM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > 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? Hm, how about a new file in kernel/ ? thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- 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