From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brownell Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 16:50:25 +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 > From: "Adam J. Richter" > Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 2:03 AM > > I would like to see systems in the future that are > much more usage driven than the ones of today. Me too -- for all that it's a significant change in "user model" from traditional UNIX. Today, autoconfiguration is much more important that it was way back when; and conserving system power usage starts to be a lot more important. > On such a system, the boot process proper could be very fast. A very useful side effect! > On the other hand, you might want your system to configure > everything, at least in the background, just to reduce the pauses > the first time you were to use each device. It would depend on how > much you cared about kernel footprint and power consumption. Today, the hotplug scripts are set up to configure everything they can, even for the "cold plugged" boot scenario, on the grounds that we don't have code to support multiple operational policies yet, and that's the most general single policy to adopt. (Plus, from having done this sort of thing before, I know that having multiple such policies is confusing to pretty much everyone.) I certainly agree that richer system models for autoconfiguration will be needed. Different kinds of systems should be able to have different levels of autonomy ... as well as adopting different power management policies. - 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