From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 16:17:24 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] add USB coldplay support into udevstart Message-Id: <20050808161724.GA2213@vrfy.org> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 06:14:19PM +0200, Thierry Vignaud wrote: > Kay Sievers writes: > > > > > the following patch from Olivier Blin adds USB coldplay support > > > > into udevstart (patch is against udev-065): > > > > > > Care to just change this to work for all busses that might have > > > "modalias" files in them? USB isn't the only one... > > > > I don't think, that we want to do this in udevstart, at least at > > it's current state. It will break to many setups, cause all the > > distros have their own way to handle the coldplug case. > > > > Everything in udevstart is serialized, which may not be optimal for > > all the things to do during a coldplug session, cause every sleeping > > script will delay the whole process. > > udev'll serialize event processing anyway... udev is a event process! udevd will not serialize the most cases! > > In general I like the idea and we should experiment what the best > > solution would be: event-replay, coldplug-binary, udevstart + > > coldplug, synthesizing events and pass them to udevd for parallel > > execution... > > But this should happen in a separate binary, so we don't break too many > > things at once. :) > > udevstart already performs coldplug regarding classes & block devices. > it's exactly what udevstart was designed for IMHO. Yeah, great, tell me what it is designed for. Thanks, Kay ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ 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