From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri) Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 22:51:55 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] The Ubuntu Collection Message-Id: <20051207225154.GA26605@wonderland.linux.it> MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="45Z9DzgjV8m4Oswq" List-Id: References: <1133975579.2805.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1133975579.2805.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org --45Z9DzgjV8m4Oswq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Dec 07, Kay Sievers wrote: > > 55-run-program.patch > > This reduces the severity of the "exec of program failed" error IF > > the reason the program couldn't be run was because it didn't exist > Yeah, I'm still unsure if the used tool should be required to be in the > rootfs or not. But it sounds like a sane default, if we don't require > this. I'd rather not use such a patch, because in the end it will hide real problems. > For the higher level things HAL is the approproate place to do device > setup anyway. That's the reason I ignored all the map conversion things, > cause digital cameras, scanners and such things belong to HAL these days > and not in udev rules. Tell this to the libsane/libgphoto maintainers... :-) > Hmm, I'm no longer sure that the C programs for something that is > usually 20 lines of shell long and called 3 times at bootup make sense. > For the firmware case I always wanted to add some handling for missing > firmware, but even for this we would not need a C program. Hmm... Indeed. All these programs are much larger than a small shell, and I just do not believe that shell script would not be efficient enough. --=20 ciao, Marco --45Z9DzgjV8m4Oswq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDl2eKFGfw2OHuP7ERAmxZAJ0bwOtZWQbUHXtAncmSScHom312VwCfTIyQ UlKE8Rz4g++qHf8wEG5dFy0= =Ft4a -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --45Z9DzgjV8m4Oswq-- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ 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