From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Olivier Blin Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 19:52:42 +0000 Subject: Re: udevsynthesize as a udevstart+coldplug replacement Message-Id: 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 writes: > As pinted out earlier, it's a very different approch with complete > different problems to do it async. Yes, it's the one you've described in reply to my posts, but you haven't said you would implement it :-) >> I'd still like a --disable-bus= option so that distro vendors can >> forbid bus coldplug they don't like. >> I'm not sure most distro are ready to have udevstart automatically >> load modules on the pci bus. For example network and sound drivers are >> often handled separately. >> Should I take care of this patch? > > _Not_ handling these events is just a special case of handling it, so a > rule can prevent the event from doing anything. I prefer a single source of > policy as long as this is possible. One may want to handle USB hotplugging, but not USB coldplugging. I don't think there is a solution to differentiate hotplug from coldplug in udev rules (but maybe I'm missing something). > As said earlier, udevstart is the most critical part of udev. We should > not play around with that. And Olaf was right, the name is misleading > and should change anyway. :) Fair enough. -- Olivier Blin Mandriva Mandrakesoft becomes Mandriva ------------------------------------------------------- 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