From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Per Svennerbrandt Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 20:47:41 +0000 Subject: Re: udevsynthesize as a udevstart+coldplug replacement Message-Id: <20050823204741.GA11743@tsiryulnik> List-Id: References: <20050823191542.GA29091@vrfy.org> In-Reply-To: <20050823191542.GA29091@vrfy.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org * Kay Sievers (kay.sievers@vrfy.org) wrote: > Here is "udevsynthesize" a possible replacement for the udevstart/coldplug > combination we currently have. Usually very early in the boot process, it > gets all available devices from sysfs and synthesizes the events these > devices would have generated at creation time. > The events are directly passed to the udevd daemom socket. udevd does all the > work and runs all the events asynchronously. udevsynthesize itself does > not read any udev rule. > > It scans block and class devices to create the the device nodes for already > available devices, which obsoletes the run of udevstart. > After that, it scans for bus devices, which events may load modules or > configure the device. If the bus type is known, the usual bus-specific > values are added to the event environment. Conceptually (Meaning I havn't carefully examined the code yet) this looks great! Thanks for doing this Kay! It's nice to see the hotplug+udev combo finally getting in to shape and becoming more streamlined and lightweight. Thanks a bunch! /Pelle ------------------------------------------------------- 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