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From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Nick Craig-Wood <ncw1@axis.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: hotplug (was devfs)
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:46:12 +0100
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> > So - perhaps hotplug ought to be serialised?
>
> No, it's not needed for this problem.  There has been talk of
> serializing stuff in userspace, which is the proper way to handle some
> of the remove before add was seen problems.

We may need some kind of load control.
The thought of firing up hundreds of hotplug scripts
simultaneously is not pretty.

	Regards
		Oliver

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