Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261783AbVEJUg1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2005 16:36:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261785AbVEJUgP (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2005 16:36:15 -0400 Received: from attila.bofh.it ([213.92.8.2]:44482 "EHLO attila.bofh.it") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261781AbVEJUcI (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2005 16:32:08 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 22:31:56 +0200 To: Greg KH Cc: "Alexander E. Patrakov" , Rusty Russell , linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 002 release Message-ID: <20050510203156.GA14979@wonderland.linux.it> Mail-Followup-To: Greg KH , "Alexander E. Patrakov" , Rusty Russell , linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20050506212227.GA24066@kroah.com> <1115611034.14447.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050509232103.GA24238@suse.de> <1115717357.10222.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050510094339.GC6346@wonderland.linux.it> <4280AFF4.6080108@ums.usu.ru> <20050510172447.GA11263@wonderland.linux.it> <20050510201355.GB3226@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="J/dobhs11T7y2rNN" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050510201355.GB3226@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1815 Lines: 54 --J/dobhs11T7y2rNN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On May 10, Greg KH wrote: > > > Why not this or something similar (e.g. I want to blacklist the xxx a= nd=20 > > > yyy modules)? (note, untested) > Nice, I like it. But it does not work. > > Because it's impossible to predict how it will interact with other > > install and alias commands. > Then we will just have to find out :) It should be clear that it will interact badly with another install commands, with one of them being ignored. This is not acceptable. > > A less fundamental but still major problem is that this would be a > > different API, and both users and packages have been aware of > > /etc/hotplug/blacklist* for a long time now. > And as /etc/hotplug/* is going away for hotplug-ng, I don't think this > is going to be an issue. Also, the blacklisting stuff should not be > that prevelant anymore... It's a feature which I know my users and other maintainers need (for duplicated drivers, OSS drivers, watchdog drivers, usb{mouse,kbd} and so on) so it's a prerequisite for the successful packaging of hotplug-ng. --=20 ciao, Marco --J/dobhs11T7y2rNN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCgRo8FGfw2OHuP7ERArWNAJ9p4sv4NeO5hOs9bsn2YUKtOm05+wCeOUOS xQzDY0pJhUpgjzvlIGlQ1dE= =Bvqk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --J/dobhs11T7y2rNN-- - 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/