From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brownell Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 15:45:37 +0000 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Hotplug-Perl 1.1 Update Message-Id: <200506060845.37530.david-b@pacbell.net> List-Id: References: <42A4652A.70207@idealcorp.com> In-Reply-To: <42A4652A.70207@idealcorp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Monday 06 June 2005 8:00 am, Anthony Awtrey wrote: > GENERAL DESCRIPTION > > Hotplug-perl is a boot speed performance oriented implementation of > hotplug written in Perl. It requires a 2.6 kernel with hotplug and Perl > 5.8. It was developed with Debian Sarge as the target, but should work > elsewhere. The web page includes bootcharts demonstrating the > performance improvement over the Bash implementation of hotplug. Interesting. It strikes me that the original BASH script development was done for kernels that don't configure every single PCI and USB driver ... and those bootcharts suggest that when all those drivers get configured, as for a mainstream distro like Debian, speed then becomes a much more visible issue. Using BASH was a way to get things started (the initial scripts were just a few dozen emailable lines of code), and ensure that sysadmins could extend hotplugging using traditional tools (or of course just replacing the program entirely). It's not exactly the best language for programming with non-trivial datasets. - Dave ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. Play to win an NEC 61" plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r _______________________________________________ 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