From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263737AbTDNVeN (for ); Mon, 14 Apr 2003 17:34:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263739AbTDNVeN (for ); Mon, 14 Apr 2003 17:34:13 -0400 Received: from svr-ganmtc-appserv-mgmt.ncf.coxexpress.com ([24.136.46.5]:18953 "EHLO svr-ganmtc-appserv-mgmt.ncf.coxexpress.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263737AbTDNVeM (for ); Mon, 14 Apr 2003 17:34:12 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC] /sbin/hotplug multiplexor From: Robert Love To: "Kevin P. Fleming" Cc: linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <3E9B2720.7020803@cox.net> References: <20030414190032.GA4459@kroah.com> <200304142209.56506.oliver@neukum.org> <20030414203328.GA5191@kroah.com> <200304142311.01245.oliver@neukum.org> <3E9B2720.7020803@cox.net> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1050356754.3664.82.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4 (1.2.4-2) Date: 14 Apr 2003 17:45:54 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 17:24, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: > Personally, this is one reason why I'd much rather see a daemon-based model > where each interested daemon can "subscribe" to the messages it is interested > in. It's very possible (and likely, i.e. udev) that the steps involved for the > daemon to respond to the hotplug event are so lightweight that creating a > subprocess to handle them would be very wasteful. This screams for d-bus. I spent the weekend reading about it and I spoke with some of the d-bus hackers. It is really neat and certainly something we should look into. See http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/ Robert Love