mdev

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Mon Apr 20 00:56:28 UTC 2009


On Sunday 19 April 2009 16:55:14 Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On Sunday 19 April 2009 22:21, Rob Landley wrote:
> > On Sunday 19 April 2009 12:55:15 Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > > On Sunday 19 April 2009 16:06, Vladimir Dronnikov wrote:
> > > > Please, take a look at the recent patch. I placed modprobe's
> > > > spawn_and_wait into the branch where firmware is loaded.
> >
> > ,,,
> >
> > > Ok, I added it. Try matching $MODALIAS=.* with current svn.
> >
> > I give up.
>
> It isn't too bad, ~60 bytes of code.

It's not the bytes, it's the design.  What mdev now does is "respond to 
arbitrary hotplug events, as necessary".

If you can't say what it _doesn't_ do, it's only a matter of time before it 
starts sending dbus notifications.

Rob
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