From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Miles Lane Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 06:59:21 +0000 Subject: Re: OT(?) -- Should the net.agent script cause "ifup lo" to be run? 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 Brownell wrote: >> From: "Bill Nottingham" >> Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 4:38 PM >> I was probably overly harsh in my assessment; it's not that >> the scripts are buggy (aside from the ppp thing); it's that >> in the current state what they do conflicts with how the >> distribution used to work before. > > It's almost as if we were doing beta testing of the system > integration, right now ... ;-) Hi Bill and Co., In the early design phase of the hotplug system (it was USB-specific at the time, IIRC), David Brownell foresaw that we would reach a point were the folks involved in developing distribution init scripts would get involved. I am delighted to see that that day has arrived! It's a definite milestone. At that time, David mentioned that a huge amount of the work in improving and fine-tuning the hotplug system would require the resources, effort and expertise of the distribution vendor staff. So, your input and contributions are most welcome! In order to ensure that we implement a solid, general system, it would be wonderful if you would invite others at Redhat and at the other distribution vendors, as well, to participate in the hotplug development process on this mailing list. You mention some problems Redhat encountered in recent rawhide testing. It would be fantastic if you could help ensure that any hotplug-related problems are reported to this mailing list quickly, so we can work together on a solution. Since this is a big change to hotplugging and since good hotplugging is one of the most significant improvements we can make to improve user experience on the desktop, it seems important that we get this all ironed out rapidly. This will obviously help Redhat and all the other vendors deliver great 2.4-based Linux releases more quickly. Best wishes, Miles _______________________________________________ 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