Re: [patch] kernel sysfs events layer

[Robert Love]

On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 15:26 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:

> o What kind of signal do we need? A lazy string, a well defined set like
>   ADD/REMOVE/CHANGE?
>   Or can we get rid of the whole signal? But how can we distinguish between
>   add and remove? Watching if the sysfs file comes or goes is not a option,
>   I think.

I think (from our off-list discussions) that we really need the signal.
Agreed?

I do think that defining the signal to specific values makes sense, e.g.
KEVENT_ADD, KEVENT_REMOVE, KEVENT_MOUNTED, etc.  We could also send the
attribute as a string.

To get around the hotplug issue that would occur without 'enum kevent',
as we discussed, we could have a "hotplug_added" signal or whatever.
Nothing wrong with that.

Cool or not?

	Robert Love


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