From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brownell Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 02:41:16 +0000 Subject: Re: [Xpert]Re: User-level Tasks in Hotplug Scripts? Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org > > Actually one of the goals of the hotplug framework is to avoid > > requirements to have Yet Another Monitoring Daemon hanging > > around wasting resources ... likewise, to avoid needing to start the > > apropriate magic program before plugging in devices. > > I wouldn't call using a few K's of memory a waste of resources. Most examples I've seen start at closer to an M or two, which does matter. I'd call such issues workable, though obesity in GUI frameworks has sometimes reached criminal levels. Re access rights: > Practically all desktop Linux distributions associates these kind of > things with console ownership. If you're on the console, you are allowed > access the graphics adapter, audio, floppy, cdrom, etc. devices. I don't > see a problem with hotplug management following the same scheme. Right, though it's not quite that simple even there. The "single user desktop" model is well known to be the one which is relatively straightforward to address -- and arguably hits the "95% of end users" case here. So long as one can kick in a "no gui" mode for servers, and do something intelligent in the case of multi-gui systems, that's a good place to start. - Dave _______________________________________________ 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