From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: I'm lost: the udev workflow
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 11:50:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050624115003.GA22555@vrfy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200506240403.35408.ml@gioelebarabucci.com>
On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 01:36:05PM +0200, Gioele Barabucci wrote:
> On Friday 24 June 2005 12:23, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > udevd already keeps track of the event management as it does today. The
> > only difference is that it receives the kernel-events directly from a
> > netlink-socket instead of letting the kernel fork a notification process
> > that feeds udevd.
> So, if I got it correctly, in the future the "Good Way Of Doing Things" is
> going to be:
>
> * /sbin/hotplug is empty
> * udevd listens to hotplug events via netlink
> * when one event is catch, udevd does its work loading modules and managing
> device files
> * udevd notifies other applications (HALd & Co.) that something happened to
> the device foo whose device file is "/dev/foobar"
Yes, but it's not udevd itself, it's the forked udev event-handler,
that matches against the udev-rules and decides what to do: managing
/dev or/and running programs, whatever program it is: loading modules
or notifying HAL or something else).
Kay
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-24 2:03 I'm lost: the udev workflow Gioele Barabucci
2005-06-24 10:23 ` Kay Sievers
2005-06-24 11:36 ` Gioele Barabucci
2005-06-24 11:50 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
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