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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 17:08:29 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron-office.nl>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.1 release
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On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 11:39:07PM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <20030411190717.GH1821@kroah.com>,
> Greg KH  <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> >I agree too.  Having /sbin/hotplug send events to a pipe where a daemon
> >can get them from makes a lot of sense.  It will handle most of the
> >synchronization and spawning a zillion tasks problems.
> 
> Why not serialize /sbin/hotplug at the kernel level. Queue hotplug
> events and only allow one /sbin/hotplug to run at the same time.

We don't want the kernel to stop based on a user program.

thanks,

greg k-h