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SubjectRe: small devfs patch for 2.5.65, plan to replace /sbin/hotplug
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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