From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oliver Neukum Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 14:07:12 +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 On Donnerstag, 8. Februar 2001 14:49, Andrew Morton wrote: > David Woodhouse wrote: > > Thinks.... a list of hotplug devices in a /proc file, listing some unique > > per-instance ID against the type, topological information and current > > name of the device. You don't send explicit add/remove events to > > userspace, just an "Oi. Look again". > > Seems sensible to me. It's a bit racy, but the read could be made > atomic if desired. (Thinks: devfs). You throw away information the kernel has for free. You need to build a map of devices in user space, which is a single point of failure. You are required to serialise the agents. You are unable to handle errors. Regards Oliver _______________________________________________ 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