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From: Brad Hards <bhards@bigpond.net.au>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: alternate event logging proposal
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:37:20 +1000
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On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:31, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Brad Hards wrote:
> > I liked the /sbin/hotplug arrangement (aka call_usermode_helper). In
> > fact, my plan was to add the call_usermode_helper call to the
> > netif_carrier_[on,off] functions. Unfortuantely, I've been to too many of
> > Rusty's talks, and know that calling a function that is only safe in user
> > context is unlikely to be a good idea in netif_carrier_[on,off], which
> > are more than likely running in interrupt context.
>
> You really want something where a userspace app can sleep on an fd, to
> be awakened when link changes (or some other interesting event occurs)
Maybe - I've been thinking of a "hotplug" daemon, that can take notifications 
from the kernel _and_ from other userspace apps. The integrated solution 
somehow needs to incorporate device hotplugging (eg USB, PCI), network device 
events (netlink), userspace reconfiguration (eg X colour depth and 
resolution) and maybe network infrastructure (external to the machine, 
probably SLPv2 or similar), and reconfigure kernel and applications to match.

Brad
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http://conf.linux.org.au. 22-25Jan2003. Perth, Aust. Tickets booked.
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