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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] coldplug - emit hotplug events from sysfs
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 16:22:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051003162212.GA9441@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051001124943.GA26076@vrfy.org>

On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 08:58:18AM -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> > This patch adds a "uevent" file to all class/block/bus-devices. Writing to
> > this file, will just emit the hotplug event from the kernel again. udevstart
> > and all the coldplug logic can be 3 lines of shell-script now. Boots fine
> > and is _very_ fast on my box.
> >
> > What do you think?
> 
> It only issues the "add" event, but otherwise the idea is intriguing.

There's no way to re-issue the "remove" event, as the object is already
gone :)

> For paranoia's sake, it might be good to flag these events as being
> replays/fakes.

How?  And why?  The sequence number will be different from the original,
if you really want to pay attention to that.

thanks,

greg k-h


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-10-03 16:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-01 12:49 [RFC] coldplug - emit hotplug events from sysfs Kay Sievers
2005-10-03 10:03 ` Scott James Remnant
2005-10-03 10:29 ` Olivier Blin
2005-10-03 12:21 ` Kay Sievers
2005-10-03 13:00 ` Olivier Blin
2005-10-03 15:21 ` Scott James Remnant
2005-10-03 15:29 ` Kay Sievers
2005-10-03 16:22 ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-10-03 16:31 ` Scott James Remnant
2005-10-03 17:44 ` Olivier Blin
2005-10-03 17:49 ` Bill Nottingham
2005-10-03 17:59 ` Olivier Blin
2005-10-04 21:00 ` Greg KH
2005-10-28 20:12 ` Scott James Remnant
2005-10-28 20:14 ` Greg KH
2005-10-29  2:29 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2005-10-29  2:43 ` Greg KH

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