From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261493AbTDKSPl (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 14:15:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261501AbTDKSPl (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 14:15:41 -0400 Received: from e2.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.102]:46297 "EHLO e2.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261493AbTDKSPk (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 14:15:40 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 11:12:45 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Roman Zippel Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, message-bus-list@redhat.com, Daniel Stekloff Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.1 release Message-ID: <20030411181245.GD1821@kroah.com> References: <20030411032424.GA3688@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 08:02:41PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Greg KH wrote: > > > I'd like to finally announce the previously vapor-ware udev program that > > I've talked a lot about with a lot of people over the past months. The > > first, very rough cut is at: > > kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev-0.1.tar.gz > > Is there a special reason why you call mknod? I was lazy and trying to get this to work :) > Otherwise you could simply do: > > syscall(SYS_mknod, name, S_IFBLK | mode, dev); Yes, I'll switch to this way soon, just have to make sure my version of dev stays the same size as the kernel's version... > > Yes, I know there's still a lot of work to do (serialization, symlinks, > > hooking hotplug so that others can also use it, etc.) but it's a first > > step :) > > To help serialization and perfomance issues, it might help to add a daemon > mode to hotplug. The kernel calls hotplug with a pipe from which it reads > the event data, after a certain timeout it can close the pipe and exit. Yes, this is probably what is going to happen soon. thanks, greg k-h