Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 17:53:01 -0600
From: Chris Larson <kergoth@handhelds.org>
To: linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] a very tiny /sbin/hotplug
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* Eugene Surovegin (ebs@ebshome.net) wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 03:14:06PM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > So, a number of people have complained over the past few years about the
> > fact that /sbin/hotplug was a shell script.  Funny enough, it's the
> > people on the huge boxes, with huge number of devices that are
> > complaining, not the embedded people with limited resources (ironic,
> > isn't it...)
> 
> This is probably because embedded people don't use hotplug at all :).
> On dozen different PPC and MIPS boxes I worked on, we never needed 
> this feature.

I tend to focus on ARM, and find this very useful.  I know of a number
of folks using erik andersen's "diethotplug" (which hasnt been touched
in some time).  I look forward to your further hotplug improvements.
--
Chris Larson - kergoth at handhelds dot org
Linux Software Systems Engineer - clarson at ti dot com
OpenZaurus Project Maintainer - http://openzaurus.org/
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