Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Mar 2003 15:21:31 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: small devfs patch for 2.5.65, plan to replace /sbin/hotplug |
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On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 01:45:09PM -0700, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: > Adam J. Richter wrote: > > I believe that the only change in this version of devfs is > >moving the code to invoke the user level devfs_helper program to a > >separate file, fs/devfs/notify.c. This change will simplify a future > >code shrink inspired by David Brownell's suggesting that I think about > >unifying hotplug with devfs. In the future I would like to lift > >fs/devfs/notify.c out of devfs so that the code that currently invokes > >user level helpers for hot plug events can be replaced with two calls > >to a renamed devfs_event() on > >/sys/bus/<bustype>/devices/<bus#>/<whatever>, one for insertion and > >one for removal.
Adam, right now we get /sbin/hotplug events for every device insertion and removal in the kernel. Do you want more than this?
> 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 :)
thanks,
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