From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brownell Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 21:28:50 +0000 Subject: Re: /sbin/hotplug invocation for USB devices in 2.5.40 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 Oliver Neukum wrote: >> - Don't make hotplug calls for USB devices until we have something >> for them to do. (Essentially these are a new class of event.) >> >> The example that comes to mind is policy agents using those >> events to choose a non-default device configuration. But USB >> needs a bunch of work before such things become practical. > > > And reporting the thing to a desktop enviroment. The software I've heard of that does such things today is perfectly happy with today's interface level notification. > The cost is small and the thing is potentially useful. Equivalently: it's not free, and we don't know what it'd be good for. That "small and potentially useful" argument is the essence of feature creep, which is why I don't like it. I'd far rather see some examples of improvements it would enable ... but I don't think there are any, since it'd be just a subset of what we can already do without such calls. > We discussed such stuff in Cologne and came to the conclusion that > user space wants all information on device<->interface relationship it > can get. It's sitting there in KFS already, nobody's proposing that it be removed. - 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