From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263955AbTDNV2g (for ); Mon, 14 Apr 2003 17:28:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263957AbTDNV2g (for ); Mon, 14 Apr 2003 17:28:36 -0400 Received: from e1.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.101]:60927 "EHLO e1.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263955AbTDNV2c (for ); Mon, 14 Apr 2003 17:28:32 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 14:30:54 -0700 From: Greg KH To: oliver@neukum.name Cc: linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] /sbin/hotplug multiplexor Message-ID: <20030414213054.GA5700@kroah.com> References: <20030414190032.GA4459@kroah.com> <200304142209.56506.oliver@neukum.org> <20030414203328.GA5191@kroah.com> <200304142311.01245.oliver@neukum.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200304142311.01245.oliver@neukum.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 11:11:01PM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > > Now let's be conservative and assume 16KB unswappable memory > > > per task. Now we take the famous 4000 disk case. 64MB. A lot > > > but probably not deadly. But multiply this by 15 and the machine is > > > absolutely dead. > > > > Ok, then the "Enterprise Edition" of the distros that expect to handle > > 4000 disks will have to add the following patch to their version of the > > hotplug package. > > > > In the meantime, the other 99% of current Linux users will exist just > > fine :) > > Well, for a little elegance you might introduce subdirectories for each type > of hotplug event and use only them. No, that's for the individual scripts/programs to decide. For example, that's what the current hotplug scripts do, but that's not at all what the udev program wants to do. thanks, greg k-h