Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Jun 2003 11:24:52 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] udev enhancements to use kernel event queue |
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On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 09:03:19AM -0700, Steven Dake wrote: > devfs is not appropriate as it does not allow for complex policy with > external attributes that the kernel is unaware of. For an example, lets > take the situation where a policy must access a cluster-wide manager to > determine some information before it can make a policy decision. For > that to occur, there must be sockets, and hopefully libc, which puts the > entire thing in user space. Who would want to write policies in the > kernel? uck.
Look at devfsd, it is in userspace.
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