From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 22:58:18 +0000 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.1 release 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, Apr 11, 2003 at 03:43:12PM -0700, Steven Dake wrote: > > Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: > > >On 2003-04-11T15:30:21, > > Steven Dake said: > > > > > > > >>There is no "spec" that states this is a requirement, however, telecom > >>customers require the elapsed time from the time they request the disk > >>to be used, to the disk being usable by the operating system to be 20 > >>msec. > >> > >> > > > >Heh. Yes, I've read that spec, and some of it involves some good crack > >smoking > >;-) The current Linux scheduler will make that rather hard for you, you'll > >need hard realtime for such guarantees. > > > Its quite easy to do if you are not dependent upon spawning an entire > process to execute the insertion and creation even of the device node. Then have the telcos live with the static /dev that they have today :) There's always a price to pay for new features... greg k-h Happily using his "pleasure boating" version of Linux... ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The debugger for complex code. Debugging C/C++ programs can leave you feeling lost and disoriented. TotalView can help you find your way. Available on major UNIX and Linux platforms. Try it free. www.etnus.com _______________________________________________ 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