Message-ID: <3A020920.4559F400@mandrakesoft.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 19:38:57 -0500
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
Organization: MandrakeSoft
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To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATCH 2.4.0.10: Update hotplug
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David Brownell wrote:
>     - Changing /sbin/hotplug invocations ... now it can
>       only support "add" and "del" events.  (USB now
>       uses "add" and "remove", though "remove" doesn't
>       try to do anything yet.)
> 
>       This removes the intended flexibility whereby
>       different subsystems (such as networking) can
>       define their own events.

Wrong.  Different subsystems -do- define their own events.  However,
different subsystems should use the same verbs for the same actions.  We
need consistency where possible.


>     - "/sbin/hotplug net ..." replaced by "/sbin/network",
>       with two custom event types.

Hotplug device insertion and network interface addition/removal are two
fundamentally different things.  Further, my code purposefully does not
wrap CONFIG_HOTPLUG around the /sbin/network code, because /sbin/network
has utility outside the domain of hotplug.

	Jeff


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