Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.1 release

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 03:35:52PM -0700, Steven Dake wrote:
> Yes, and in the rest of my email, I stated this would be solved by 
> replacing /sbin/hotplug with a mechanism to communicate events to a user 
> space daemon which would process requests in order as submitted by the 
> kernel. (All except the same minor/major, which may or may not happen).  
> If the kernel is evil and doesn't submit events in order, thats another 
> problem to solve, but it should for disk events, atleast.

Multi-threaded device discovery is a good thing, it solves a lot of
real-life problems that we have today.  But it's a 2.7 thing, not on the
near horizon.

thanks,

greg k-h

Making the kernel evil since 2001