From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Per Liden <per@fukt.bth.se>
Cc: linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 002 release
Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 23:22:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050509232207.GB24238@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0505090025280.7682@1-1-2-5a.f.sth.bostream.se>
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 12:52:02AM +0200, Per Liden wrote:
> On Fri, 6 May 2005, Greg KH wrote:
>
> [...]
> > Now, with the 2.6.12-rc3 kernel, and a patch for module-init-tools, the
> > USB hotplug program can be written with a simple one line shell script:
> > modprobe $MODALIAS
>
> Nice, but why not just convert all this to a call to
> request_module($MODALIAS)? Seems to me like the natural thing to do.
Because that's not the only thing that the hotplug event causes to
happen. It's easier to have userspace decide what to do with this
instead.
> [...]
> > Oh, and the upstream module-init-tools maintainer needs to accept that
> > patch one of these days...
>
> Where can this patch be found?
Just sent it to this same thread.
thanks,
greg k-h
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Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-06 21:22 [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 002 release Greg KH
2005-05-08 22:52 ` Per Liden
2005-05-09 21:13 ` Per Svennerbrandt
2005-05-10 22:17 ` Per Liden
2005-05-10 22:41 ` Greg KH
2005-05-10 23:56 ` Per Liden
2005-05-11 1:22 ` Brian Gerst
2005-05-11 5:33 ` Greg KH
2005-05-18 23:00 ` Per Svennerbrandt
2005-05-18 23:00 ` [PATCH][RFC] __request_module: fixed argument request_module with waitflag Per Svennerbrandt
2005-05-18 23:01 ` [PATCH][RFC] request_modalias: MODALIAS based module loading Per Svennerbrandt
2005-05-18 23:37 ` Per Svennerbrandt
2005-05-10 22:41 ` [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 002 release Greg KH
2005-05-12 21:42 ` Greg KH
2005-05-13 8:19 ` Michael Tokarev
2005-05-13 16:02 ` Greg KH
2005-05-13 23:21 ` Per Svennerbrandt
2005-05-14 5:59 ` Greg KH
2005-05-18 9:27 ` David Weinehall
2005-05-09 23:22 ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-05-10 21:51 ` Per Liden
2005-05-11 5:36 ` Greg KH
2005-05-09 3:57 ` Rusty Russell
2005-05-09 23:21 ` Greg KH
2005-05-10 9:29 ` Rusty Russell
2005-05-10 9:43 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-05-10 12:58 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2005-05-10 17:24 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-05-10 20:13 ` Greg KH
2005-05-10 20:28 ` Lee Revell
2005-05-10 20:59 ` Greg KH
2005-05-10 21:02 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-05-10 20:31 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-05-10 20:52 ` Greg KH
2005-05-10 20:59 ` Bill Nottingham
2005-05-10 21:08 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-05-10 21:22 ` Erik van Konijnenburg
2005-05-10 23:55 ` [PATCH] " Erik van Konijnenburg
2005-05-11 0:05 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-05-11 5:40 ` Greg KH
2005-05-11 0:08 ` [PATCH] " Rusty Russell
2005-05-11 1:11 ` Erik van Konijnenburg
2005-05-11 3:39 ` Rusty Russell
2005-05-11 9:59 ` Erik van Konijnenburg
2005-05-11 10:52 ` Rusty Russell
2005-05-11 10:58 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-05-11 13:06 ` Erik van Konijnenburg
2005-05-12 4:39 ` Rusty Russell
2005-05-12 7:47 ` Erik van Konijnenburg
2005-05-11 0:01 ` Rusty Russell
2005-05-11 0:10 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-05-11 1:09 ` Rusty Russell
2005-05-11 7:31 ` Christian Zoz
2005-05-14 23:02 ` Michael Tokarev
2005-05-16 19:11 ` Greg KH
2005-05-16 21:24 ` Marco d'Itri
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2005-05-11 2:04 ` Bodo Eggert <harvested.in.lkml@posting.7eggert.dyndns.org>
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