udevsend as hotplug multiplexer

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Jaime Buffery wrote:

>On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 07:57:17AM +0100, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
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>>Hi nestu,
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>Hola Jasper, amigo mío ;)
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>>Current udev can also act as hotplug multiplexer instead of 
>>/sbin/hotplug, with the added advantage of sending events always in the 
>>correct order. Newer HAL versions will even depend on it.
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>Before I say anything else, I want to make absolutely clear that I have nothing 
>against your patch. In fact, I just tried it successfully myself ;)
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>There is however something I don't understand: AFAIK, it is udevd that orders 
>the hotlpug events depending on a kernel sequence number, not the caller. So 
>where does udevsend/hotplug benefit come in to play here? Are we removing out of 
>order hotplug events? Are we just jumping one step, e.g., making things quicker? 
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I don't really know. All I know is that hal 0.5 depends on this; that's 
in fact how I found out about it, when I was looking into how to make 
hal work.

    Jasper