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From: miquels@cistron-office.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.1 release
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In article <20030411190717.GH1821@kroah.com>,
Greg KH  <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
>I agree too.  Having /sbin/hotplug send events to a pipe where a daemon
>can get them from makes a lot of sense.  It will handle most of the
>synchronization and spawning a zillion tasks problems.

Why not serialize /sbin/hotplug at the kernel level. Queue hotplug
events and only allow one /sbin/hotplug to run at the same time.

Mike.