From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 16:43:34 +0000 Subject: Re: Adding PCMCIA support to the kernel tree -- developers needed. 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 David Woodhouse wrote: > > jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com said: > > My suggestion would be a ring buffer that includes a jiffy (or other) > > timestamp before each event. That way it would be trivial for a > > hotplugd to replay whatever events it missed... > > Could we use netlink? Or does that not have the desired behaviour when the > listener isn't yet present? We want it to queue the packets, not just drop > them. Not sure, don't know netlink that well. Interesting idea though... Queue skbs containing hotplug data onto a virtual network device. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | "You see, in this world there's two kinds of Building 1024 | people, my friend: Those with loaded guns MandrakeSoft | and those who dig. You dig." --Blondie _______________________________________________ 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