From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 23:55:53 +0000 Subject: Re: small devfs patch for 2.5.65, plan to replace /sbin/hotplug Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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=20 > >>like to discuss with you (and Greg KH) the possibility of just=20 > >>eliminating devfs entirely, and moving to a userspace version that is=20 > >>driven entirely by /sbin/hotplug. > > > > > >You mean with something like this: > > http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2003/view_abstract.php?talk=94 > >:) > > >=20 > Yep, that's the one. Sounds very simple and straightforward to me. The mo= st=20 > complex part will be defining some file structure to define the user's=20 > 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open!=20 Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and=20 the chance of winning an Apple iPod: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en _______________________________________________ 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