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From: Andrew Walrond <andrew@walrond.org>
To: "Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming@cox.net>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>,
	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
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 23:54:00 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E7BA618.3060603@walrond.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3E7BA329.2060806@cox.net

Sounds wonderful. Any downsides?

Andrew Walrond

Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> 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.
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-21 23:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-21  9:40 small devfs patch for 2.5.65, plan to replace /sbin/hotplug Adam J. Richter
2003-03-21 19:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-21 20:45 ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-03-21 23:21   ` Greg KH
2003-03-21 23:41     ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-03-21 23:54       ` Andrew Walrond [this message]
2003-03-22  0:03         ` Greg KH
2003-03-21 23:55       ` Greg KH
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-03-21 21:10 Adam J. Richter
2003-03-21 21:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-21 21:30 Adam J. Richter
2003-03-22  3:39 Adam J. Richter
2003-03-22 15:36 jordan.breeding
2003-03-22 22:43 ` Nicholas Wourms

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