Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261566AbVETULL (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 May 2005 16:11:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261570AbVETULL (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 May 2005 16:11:11 -0400 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.202]:25575 "EHLO rproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261567AbVETULD convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 May 2005 16:11:03 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=AYB9QrguDvjkquA4QR34n0hNQr1t1Um76r8tS0CvQlBA+RJ3Sl3Qkj7J1lojB3sWxtt+xcVe8JcdWecVhNlQm3HWBr1o4afz6vmv7CoVhwBvH4+oXJ/TvVHOhZTK8pXrmOSm0gPad2z/7BLS6HNpCpCCq+8YMB8XtKY9K53oi40= Message-ID: Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 15:11:02 -0500 From: Dmitry Torokhov Reply-To: dtor_core@ameritech.net To: Kay Sievers Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.12-rc4] Add EXPORT_SYMBOL for hotplug_path Cc: Tom Rini , Greg KH , Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: <1116618493.12975.48.camel@dhcp-188> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050519164323.GK3771@smtp.west.cox.net> <1116573175.7647.4.camel@dhcp-188.off.vrfy.org> <20050520171808.GM3771@smtp.west.cox.net> <1116611802.12975.19.camel@dhcp-188> <1116618493.12975.48.camel@dhcp-188> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1464 Lines: 35 On 5/20/05, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 14:07 -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > On 5/20/05, Kay Sievers wrote: > > > > > > Well, it doesn't depend on "make it private" it depends on Dimitry, who > > > wanted to tweak our patch for the input layer. But we wait for weeeks > > > for that. The SUSE kernel already ships a driver-core input layer > > > without the /sbin/hotplug stuff. > > > > > > > Kay, > > > > I am sorry for being slow with these patches but I really do spend all > > time that I can on kernel. > > Oh well, I know that problem. :) We need to move completely away from > unmanaged kernel-forked processes in the hotplug area. SUSE 9.3 already > ships a udevd that listens only on netlink for hotplug messages > and /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug is set to "". > Hannes converted the input layer to a input_device class to get the > event through netlink. Maybe you can have a second look at it, so that > we can get that thing upstream soon to fix the last broken hotplug-user > and make hotplug_path finally private. > Could you send me the tlatest version, please? Lats time I think there were some concerns about lifetime rules... -- Dmitry - 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/