From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brownell Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 22:17:27 +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 > > Eventually, I think something like XML databases for all > > the device and driver config data would be a good idea. > > More extensible than the "modules.*" syntax, easier to > > document and validate, and flexible enough to handle a > > variety of applications and be self-documenting. > > However, the modules.map are updated automatically > when a kernel introduces new drivers, support for new IDs, > etc. This is a great benefit. Sure, but what about all the OTHER metadata that's not in the *map files? The *map files are a great feature, for exactly the reason you identified, but I don't think that should be the end of the road. They don't say which of the drivers are experimental, or provide driver docs. > Also, shoving an XML parser > onto the root partition might be more than most people want... A decent nonvalidating XML parser in C shouldn't be large; I'm thinking 10KB, maybe it's a bit larger; how big's "expat"? Though I'd not assume any tools using that other metadata would necessarily need to be used at boot time. - 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