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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 23:54:00 +0000
From: Andrew Walrond <andrew@walrond.org>
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Subject: Re: small devfs patch for 2.5.65, plan to replace /sbin/hotplug
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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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