From: Chris Larson <kergoth@handhelds.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] a very tiny /sbin/hotplug
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 00:28:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041119002819.GE19750@rikers.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041118231406.GA11239@kroah.com>
* Greg KH (greg@kroah.com) wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 05:53:01PM -0600, Chris Larson wrote:
> > * Eugene Surovegin (ebs@ebshome.net) wrote:
> > > On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 03:14:06PM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > So, a number of people have complained over the past few years about the
> > > > fact that /sbin/hotplug was a shell script. Funny enough, it's the
> > > > people on the huge boxes, with huge number of devices that are
> > > > complaining, not the embedded people with limited resources (ironic,
> > > > isn't it...)
> > >
> > > This is probably because embedded people don't use hotplug at all :).
> > > On dozen different PPC and MIPS boxes I worked on, we never needed
> > > this feature.
> >
> > I tend to focus on ARM, and find this very useful. I know of a number
> > of folks using erik andersen's "diethotplug" (which hasnt been touched
> > in some time). I look forward to your further hotplug improvements.
>
> Yes, diethotplug is based on my old package called, supprise,
> diethotplug, and is located at
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/
>
> But that only does module loading. The "full" replacement of today's
> /sbin/hotplug functionality needs this hotplug multiplexer, and a
> diethotplug replacement (which can get much smaller than the current
> diethotplug due to the way modprobe works in 2.6.)
Ah, right. Sorry for the misattribution. I'd just like to take this
opportunity to say thanks. The udev and hotplug work you guys are doing
makes the lives of myself and others much easier.
--
Chris Larson - kergoth at handhelds dot org
Linux Software Systems Engineer - clarson at ti dot com
OpenZaurus Project Maintainer - http://openzaurus.org/
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-18 23:14 [ANNOUNCE] a very tiny /sbin/hotplug Greg KH
2004-11-18 23:46 ` Eugene Surovegin
2004-11-18 23:53 ` Chris Larson
2004-11-19 0:18 ` Greg KH
2004-11-19 10:03 ` Robert Schwebel
2004-11-19 0:28 ` Chris Larson [this message]
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