From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 00:03:23 +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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 11:54:00PM +0000, Andrew Walrond wrote: > Sounds wonderful. Any downsides? It's not implemented yet :) Seriously, there are a few gotchas that need to be worked out (serialization of hotplug events, ordering, and other races), and a few security issues to be addressed. Oh, and we need to finish converting all of the kernel's drivers to export their major/minor number through sysfs to get this to work. Just a few minor things left... thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and 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