From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brownell Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 22:15:58 +0000 Subject: Re: SCSI Patches - mostly on/off-line stuff 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 > > One way to look at that issue is to ask what user mode notifications > > will be used to address that part of the hotplug problem. Devfsd > > is what some folk like, but it's not universally accepted. GUI > > driven solutions don't seem right in all cases either. > > devfsd is at least already here. The existing /sbin/hotplug architecture > can't handle it. A new kind of event would be needed. A new event type doesn't change the architecture ... if that's all that's needed, the architecture is unchanged! To some folk, it won't even matter if the event comes from a devfsd thread or a kernel thread. Implementation detail. Except maybe to the US Patent Office ... sigh. (One iteration of USB hotplugging did just that: devfsd called the same policy scripts as the kernel thread version.) > Even so, you'll probably won't make the user happy if it works only > on plugging in and not when he puts in a new medium. > A look at supermount might be in order. Yep, lots of tools to choose from. But again, not everyone runs supermount (or wants to) -- Yet Another Daemon, as I recall the situation. - Dave _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel