From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 18:30:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 18:30:33 -0500 Received: from fed1mtao06.cox.net ([68.6.19.125]:62615 "EHLO fed1mtao06.cox.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 18:30:33 -0500 Message-ID: <3E7BA329.2060806@cox.net> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 16:41:29 -0700 From: "Kevin P. Fleming" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030311 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: "Adam J. Richter" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: small devfs patch for 2.5.65, plan to replace /sbin/hotplug References: <20030321014048.A19537@baldur.yggdrasil.com> <3E7B79D5.3060903@cox.net> <20030321232131.GA18010@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20030321232131.GA18010@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greg KH wrote: >>Are you still considering smalldevfs for 2.6 inclusion? If not, then I'd >>like to discuss with you (and Greg KH) the possibility of just eliminating >>devfs entirely, and moving to a userspace version that is driven entirely >>by /sbin/hotplug. > > > You mean with something like this: > http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2003/view_abstract.php?talk=94 > :) > Yep, that's the one. Sounds very simple and straightforward to me. The most complex part will be defining some file structure to define the user's desired naming policy to the agent that handles the hotplug events.