From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 21:00:05 +0000 Subject: Re: [RFC] coldplug - emit hotplug events from sysfs Message-Id: <20051004210005.GA15917@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <20051001124943.GA26076@vrfy.org> In-Reply-To: <20051001124943.GA26076@vrfy.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 10:57:50AM -0700, David Brownell wrote: > > > > 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 :) > > There are more event types than just "add" (and "remove") ... > > > > > 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. > > How? Add some environment variable, maybe HOTPLUG_REPLAY=y. Ok, how would you do that with our current kernel infrastructure? thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ 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