From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262882AbTLDAE3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2003 19:04:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262902AbTLDAE3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2003 19:04:29 -0500 Received: from c06284a.rny.bostream.se ([217.215.27.171]:16653 "EHLO pc2.dolda2000.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262882AbTLDAE2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2003 19:04:28 -0500 From: Fredrik Tolf MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16334.31260.278243.22272@pc7.dolda2000.com> Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 01:04:44 +0100 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Why is hotplug a kernel helper? X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under Emacs 21.2.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org If you don't mind me asking, I would like to know why the kernel calls a usermode helper for hotplug events? Wouldn't a chrdev be a better solution (especially considering that programs like magicdev could listen in to it as well)? Correct me if I'm wrong, but the kobject code never does check the return value from the usermode helper, right? Fredrik Tolf