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From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: /sbin/hotplug invocation for USB devices in 2.5.40
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 17:55:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-103409971804978@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-103406277101783@msgid-missing>


> I also created a lot of individual driverfs files for the USB device,
> basically everything that used to be specified by a environment variable
> in the call to /sbin/hotplug, is now a value in a file.  So ideally, we
> can get rid of those other variables for the USB call, and just rely on
> the info present in driverfs.
>
> I'll be doing the same thing for PCI devices to try to get rid of their
> extra variables.
>
> Does this all sound ok?  Problematic?  Even make any sense?

At first glance problematic. Invocation with enviromental variables
is atomic, reading values from driverfs is not.

I'll have a thorough look at the matter.

	Regards
		Oliver



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-10-08 17:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-08  7:32 /sbin/hotplug invocation for USB devices in 2.5.40 Greg KH
2002-10-08 17:02 ` David Brownell
2002-10-08 17:49 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-10-08 17:55 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2002-10-08 18:14 ` David Brownell
2002-10-08 18:18 ` Oliver Neukum
2002-10-08 18:18 ` Greg KH
2002-10-08 18:25 ` Greg KH
2002-10-08 21:00 ` David Brownell
2002-10-08 21:17 ` Greg KH
2002-10-08 21:18 ` David Brownell
2002-10-08 21:28 ` David Brownell
2002-10-08 21:39 ` Greg KH
2002-10-09 15:15 ` David Brownell
2002-10-10 20:35 ` Greg KH

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