From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brownell Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 23:51:36 +0000 Subject: Re: Did you try devlabel 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 Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 03:52:24PM -0500, Gary_Lerhaupt@Dell.com wrote: > >>So, in the meantime for us 2.4 folks, would it not be best to add the >>patches as I have them and then work it differently for the 2.5 >>implementation? > > > That's David's call, not mine :) > > thanks, > > greg (pass the buck) k-h Gee thanks Greg... ;) The functionality is needed, and will be needed even more in the future. So I'm keen on having it in some form. The hard question is how, and my preferred answer would be to focus all user mode tools/training/docs on what'll be the 2.5 solution ("disk" hotplug), with the 2.4 based solution mostly a "workalike" or even backport. Certainly "evolve together" so the end-user (and sysadmin) experience isn't of two rather divergent solutions, but just one (that likely works better on 2.5 systems but behaves also on 2.4). Sounds to me like a 2.5ish start isn't that far away, so a short delay seems reasonable to me. So far as I can tell, "devlabel" is in that interesting stage where it's not got that many users (yet) and so it's easy to change based on experience/feedback ... and we really ought to seek that feedback and use it to improve both 2.4 and 2.5 based systems. So I'll install devlabel and run it myself for a while. And I encourage other folk to do so, and submit feedback to this list over the next month or so. At which point I think it'll be more practical to decide in detail what the next steps are. Gary, can you work with that approach? And in any case, could you provide a short email describing how devlabel would work on different kinds of Linux systems? I have in mind a range, including desktop, small server, larger servers, and so on. Aren't there other volume management tools a "devlabel" would need to play with? - Dave ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ 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