Re: hotplug mopup

2000-12-11 Thread David Brownell
> > - I don't think we can say that the kernel hotplug interface is > > complete until we have real, working, tested userspace tools. David, > > could you please summarise the state of play here? In particular, > > what still needs to be done? > > Well, for USB I would like to know whic

Re: hotplug mopup

2000-12-10 Thread Andrew Morton
"Albert D. Cahalan" wrote: > > Marcus Meissner writes: > > >> - On the unregister/removal path, the netdevice layer ensures that > >> the interface is removed from the kernel namespace prior to launching > >> `/sbin/hotplug net unregister eth0'. > >> > >> This means that when handling netd

Re: hotplug mopup

2000-12-10 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Marcus Meissner writes: >> - On the unregister/removal path, the netdevice layer ensures that >> the interface is removed from the kernel namespace prior to launching >> `/sbin/hotplug net unregister eth0'. >> >> This means that when handling netdevice unregistration >> /sbin/hotplug cann

Re: hotplug mopup

2000-12-10 Thread David Brownell
> - I don't think we can say that the kernel hotplug interface is > complete until we have real, working, tested userspace tools. David, > could you please summarise the state of play here? In particular, > what still needs to be done? I think there's a lot of scope for more and better use

Re: hotplug mopup

2000-12-10 Thread Marcus Meissner
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > A compendium of questions and misc stuff concerning hotplug: > - Is everyone happy with call_usermodehelper() being asynchronous? It > _could_ be given a `synchronous' option, but that's a fair bit of > obfuscation and it does expose us to deadlock

Re: hotplug mopup

2000-12-10 Thread Andrew Morton
Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > - On the unregister/removal path, the netdevice layer ensures that > > the interface is removed from the kernel namespace prior to launching > > `/sbin/hotplug net unregister eth0'. > > > > This means that when handling netdevice unregistratio

Re: hotplug mopup

2000-12-10 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andrew Morton wrote: > - On the unregister/removal path, the netdevice layer ensures that > the interface is removed from the kernel namespace prior to launching > `/sbin/hotplug net unregister eth0'. > > This means that when handling netdevice unregistration > /sbin/hotplug cannot and mu

hotplug mopup

2000-12-10 Thread Andrew Morton
A compendium of questions and misc stuff concerning hotplug: - Is everyone happy with call_usermodehelper() being asynchronous? It _could_ be given a `synchronous' option, but that's a fair bit of obfuscation and it does expose us to deadlocks if the caller has any semaphores held. - One