From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: small devfs patch for 2.5.65, plan to replace /sbin/hotplug
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 23:55:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-104829098922221@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-104823993005371@msgid-missing>
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 04:41:29PM -0700, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> >>Are you still considering smalldevfs for 2.6 inclusion? If not, then I'd
> >>like to discuss with you (and Greg KH) the possibility of just
> >>eliminating devfs entirely, and moving to a userspace version that is
> >>driven entirely by /sbin/hotplug.
> >
> >
> >You mean with something like this:
> > http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2003/view_abstract.php?talk”
> >:)
> >
>
> Yep, that's the one. Sounds very simple and straightforward to me. The most
> complex part will be defining some file structure to define the user's
> desired naming policy to the agent that handles the hotplug events.
Exactly. Luckily it looks like I'm starting to get a lot of help with
this :)
As I'm still working on providing enough support from within sysfs to
export all the data we need, Dan Stekloff (cced) has started to work on
a design document for how the userspace stuff will work.
I just need a few more hours per day...
thanks,
greg k-h
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-21 23:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-21 9:40 small devfs patch for 2.5.65, plan to replace /sbin/hotplug Adam J. Richter
2003-03-21 19:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-21 20:45 ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-03-21 23:21 ` Greg KH
2003-03-21 23:41 ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-03-21 23:54 ` Andrew Walrond
2003-03-21 23:55 ` Greg KH [this message]
2003-03-22 0:03 ` Greg KH
2003-03-22 3:39 ` Adam J. Richter
2003-03-22 15:36 ` jordan.breeding
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