From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261952AbTDKWvg (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 18:51:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261962AbTDKWvg (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 18:51:36 -0400 Received: from e1.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.101]:45217 "EHLO e1.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261952AbTDKWvd (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 18:51:33 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 16:05:33 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Steven Dake Cc: Arnd Bergmann , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.1 release Message-ID: <20030411230533.GH3786@kroah.com> References: <20030411173018$2695@gated-at.bofh.it> <20030411175011$3d7e@gated-at.bofh.it> <20030411182022$7f7a@gated-at.bofh.it> <20030411184016$1180@gated-at.bofh.it> <20030411204006$0496@gated-at.bofh.it> <20030411205018$7440@gated-at.bofh.it> <200304112111.h3BLBWgu025834@post.webmailer.de> <3E974348.7080104@mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E974348.7080104@mvista.com> 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 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