Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 16 Jul 2000 08:55:15 -0600 | | From | Richard Gooch <> | | Subject | Devfs & Hot-Plug BOF & Workshop |
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Hi, all. I'm holding a devfs and Hot-Plug BOF at OLS 2000. The BOF is scheduled for Friday, 21-Jul at 10am. I've appended the abstract.
In addition, I'll be holding a half-day working on devfs and HotPlug issues. This will be a brainstorming and design session, where developers can state what the need, what they'd like and we can evaluate solutions. There may even be code written :-) The workshop will probably be on Sunday, 23-Jul.
Devfs and Hot-Plug ================== Devfs is the Device Filesystem for Linux. It provides an API for device drivers to create device nodes for each device attached to the system. The devfs namespace is designed to show the topology of devices, making it far easier to "navigate" your hardware. The recent support for hot-plug buses such as USB and FireWire require more sophisticated device management to fully utilise these buses. Devfs and its companion, devfsd (the device management daemon) provide an excellent solution to the problems of hot-plug support.
In this BOF I will give a brief overview of the history and development of devfs, and summarise other work by USB developers who have used devfs+devfsd in their solutions. Following this, there will be an open discussion for developers who want to learn how devfs works, how to use it and the reasoning behind design choices.
Regards,
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