Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 18:52:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 18:52:19 -0500 Received: from 12-231-249-244.client.attbi.com ([12.231.249.244]:39432 "HELO kroah.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 18:52:19 -0500 Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 16:03:23 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Andrew Walrond Cc: "Kevin P. Fleming" , "Adam J. Richter" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: small devfs patch for 2.5.65, plan to replace /sbin/hotplug Message-ID: <20030322000323.GC18010@kroah.com> References: <20030321014048.A19537@baldur.yggdrasil.com> <3E7B79D5.3060903@cox.net> <20030321232131.GA18010@kroah.com> <3E7BA329.2060806@cox.net> <3E7BA618.3060603@walrond.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E7BA618.3060603@walrond.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 728 Lines: 21 On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 11:54:00PM +0000, Andrew Walrond wrote: > Sounds wonderful. Any downsides? It's not implemented yet :) Seriously, there are a few gotchas that need to be worked out (serialization of hotplug events, ordering, and other races), and a few security issues to be addressed. Oh, and we need to finish converting all of the kernel's drivers to export their major/minor number through sysfs to get this to work. Just a few minor things left... thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/