From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263053AbTLDCAm (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2003 21:00:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263060AbTLDCAm (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2003 21:00:42 -0500 Received: from c06284a.rny.bostream.se ([217.215.27.171]:14094 "EHLO pc2.dolda2000.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263053AbTLDCAl (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2003 21:00:41 -0500 From: Fredrik Tolf MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16334.38227.433336.514399@pc7.dolda2000.com> Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 03:00:51 +0100 To: Greg KH Cc: Fredrik Tolf , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Why is hotplug a kernel helper? In-Reply-To: <20031204011357.GA22506@kroah.com> References: <16334.31260.278243.22272@pc7.dolda2000.com> <20031204011357.GA22506@kroah.com> 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 Greg KH writes: > On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 01:04:44AM +0100, Fredrik Tolf wrote: > > 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)? > > Please see the archives for why this is, it's been argued many times. I am sincerely sorry for being a bother, but I have spent several hours searching far and wide for information on it, both in the archives and generally on the web, without any luck in finding anything. If it's not too much to ask, would you be as kind as to provide a pointer? Btw., Is there any preferred method of announcing hotplug events to user interfaces? Fredrik Tolf