From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264024AbTJ1R1m (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2003 12:27:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264047AbTJ1R1m (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2003 12:27:42 -0500 Received: from gate.in-addr.de ([212.8.193.158]:47268 "EHLO mx.in-addr.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264024AbTJ1R1l (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2003 12:27:41 -0500 Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 18:29:26 +0100 From: Lars Marowsky-Bree To: Mark Bellon , Patrick Mochel Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: User-space System Device Enumeration (uSDE) Message-ID: <20031028172926.GN32689@marowsky-bree.de> References: <3F9DA5A6.3020008@mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <3F9DA5A6.3020008@mvista.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Ctuhulu: HASTUR Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2003-10-27T16:09:26, Mark Bellon said: > The uSDE was built in response to a set of telco and embedded community > requirements. We found it difficult to express our ideas. Everyone > wanted to see code and documentation. Here is the code and the initial > documentation. This is a starting point... That makes perfect sense. If it helped to articulate and understand your ideas and concerns, this is certainly an important starting point. > >If not, are you planning on merging your efforts with udev in the future? > It is to everyone's advantage to converge on an implementation of > enumeration that meets all of the requirements. Great! However, I suggest that you should explore this idea yourself. Only you can eventually articulate the requirements and solutions in your code; you cannot expect others to go look at it and guess them. Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Brée -- High Availability & Clustering \ ever tried. ever failed. no matter. SUSE Labs | try again. fail again. fail better. Research & Development, SUSE LINUX AG \ -- Samuel Beckett