Re: small devfs patch for 2.5.65, plan to replace /sbin/hotplug

Kevin P. Fleming (kpfleming@cox.net)
Fri, 21 Mar 2003 16:41:29 -0700


Greg KH wrote:
>>Are you still considering smalldevfs for 2.6 inclusion? If not, then I'd
>>like to discuss with you (and Greg KH) the possibility of just eliminating
>>devfs entirely, and moving to a userspace version that is driven entirely
>>by /sbin/hotplug.
>
>
> You mean with something like this:
> http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2003/view_abstract.php?talk=94
> :)
>

Yep, that's the one. Sounds very simple and straightforward to me. The most
complex part will be defining some file structure to define the user's desired
naming policy to the agent that handles the hotplug events.

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