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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 15:21:31 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming@cox.net>
Cc: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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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,

greg k-h
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