From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brownell Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 18:42:24 +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 > From: "David Woodhouse" > > How about assigning a unique ID to each _instance_ of each device (i.e. > each time it's inserted it gets a new ID. We create a device with a name > like eth-hotplug-3452 and then tell the usermodehelper about it. Interesting notion, but I think there's still a need for a stable namespace, which no user mode program can invalidate by renaming. - 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