From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri) Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 20:31:56 +0000 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 002 release Message-Id: <20050510203156.GA14979@wonderland.linux.it> MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="J/dobhs11T7y2rNN" List-Id: References: <20050506212227.GA24066@kroah.com> <1115611034.14447.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050509232103.GA24238@suse.de> <1115717357.10222.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050510094339.GC6346@wonderland.linux.it> <4280AFF4.6080108@ums.usu.ru> <20050510172447.GA11263@wonderland.linux.it> <20050510201355.GB3226@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20050510201355.GB3226@suse.de> To: Greg KH Cc: "Alexander E. Patrakov" , Rusty Russell , linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --J/dobhs11T7y2rNN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On May 10, Greg KH wrote: > > > Why not this or something similar (e.g. I want to blacklist the xxx a= nd=20 > > > yyy modules)? (note, untested) > Nice, I like it. But it does not work. > > Because it's impossible to predict how it will interact with other > > install and alias commands. > Then we will just have to find out :) It should be clear that it will interact badly with another install commands, with one of them being ignored. This is not acceptable. > > A less fundamental but still major problem is that this would be a > > different API, and both users and packages have been aware of > > /etc/hotplug/blacklist* for a long time now. > And as /etc/hotplug/* is going away for hotplug-ng, I don't think this > is going to be an issue. Also, the blacklisting stuff should not be > that prevelant anymore... It's a feature which I know my users and other maintainers need (for duplicated drivers, OSS drivers, watchdog drivers, usb{mouse,kbd} and so on) so it's a prerequisite for the successful packaging of hotplug-ng. --=20 ciao, Marco --J/dobhs11T7y2rNN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCgRo8FGfw2OHuP7ERArWNAJ9p4sv4NeO5hOs9bsn2YUKtOm05+wCeOUOS xQzDY0pJhUpgjzvlIGlQ1dE= =Bvqk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --J/dobhs11T7y2rNN-- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7393&alloc_id=16281&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