Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261852AbTFSXTF (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:19:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261868AbTFSXTF (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:19:05 -0400 Received: from almesberger.net ([63.105.73.239]:24840 "EHLO host.almesberger.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261852AbTFSXTE (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:19:04 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 20:32:30 -0300 From: Werner Almesberger To: Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] udev enhancements to use kernel event queue Message-ID: <20030619203230.E6248@almesberger.net> References: <3EE8D038.7090600@mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 06:06:43PM +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 971 Lines: 23 Linus Torvalds wrote: > [ Event demons ] encourage doing everything in one program, > keeping state in private memory, depending on ordering, and just > generally do bad things. Well, the ordering bit is the hairy part. As long as it doesn't matter if an event gets lost every once in a while, and in which order they get processed, things are fine as they are. But then it scares me to see people start to try to design some general serialization mechanism on top of /sbin/hotplug - Werner -- _________________________________________________________________________ / Werner Almesberger, Buenos Aires, Argentina wa@almesberger.net / /_http://www.almesberger.net/____________________________________________/ - 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/