From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264368AbUEMX3V (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 May 2004 19:29:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264874AbUEMX3V (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 May 2004 19:29:21 -0400 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([65.200.24.183]:63919 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264368AbUEMX3U (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 May 2004 19:29:20 -0400 Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 16:28:34 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Tim Bird Cc: Todd Poynor , mochel@digitalimplant.org, linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Hotplug events for system suspend/resume Message-ID: <20040513232834.GA21322@kroah.com> References: <20040511010015.GA21831@dhcp193.mvista.com> <20040511230001.GA26569@kroah.com> <40A17251.2000500@mvista.com> <20040512150818.GE10924@kroah.com> <40A3FAB4.7090401@am.sony.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40A3FAB4.7090401@am.sony.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 03:46:12PM -0700, Tim Bird wrote: > > Sony has experience with notifiers using /proc in a 2.4 kernel, so > I don't know if we can directly comment on the details of a hotplug-based > notification scheme. But I can say that kernel-to-user notifications > is an important feature for us. I don't see anything in your use cases that will not work with the current interfaces in 2.6. If not, please let us know. > I hope this is helpful. It is, I hope the embedded developers will start to interact with the kernel community more so than they currently are. thanks, greg k-h