Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Apr 2003 16:05:33 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.1 release |
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On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 03:35:52PM -0700, Steven Dake wrote: > Yes, and in the rest of my email, I stated this would be solved by > replacing /sbin/hotplug with a mechanism to communicate events to a user > space daemon which would process requests in order as submitted by the > kernel. (All except the same minor/major, which may or may not happen). > If the kernel is evil and doesn't submit events in order, thats another > problem to solve, but it should for disk events, atleast.
Multi-threaded device discovery is a good thing, it solves a lot of real-life problems that we have today. But it's a 2.7 thing, not on the near horizon.
thanks,
greg k-h
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