Re: [PATCH 2.6.12-rc4] Add EXPORT_SYMBOL for hotplug_path

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On 5/20/05, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 14:07 -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > On 5/20/05, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Well, it doesn't depend on "make it private" it depends on Dimitry, who
> > > wanted to tweak our patch for the input layer. But we wait for weeeks
> > > for that. The SUSE kernel already ships a driver-core input layer
> > > without the /sbin/hotplug stuff.
> > >
> >
> > Kay,
> >
> > I am sorry for being slow with these patches but I really do spend all
> > time that I can on kernel.
> 
> Oh well, I know that problem. :) We need to move completely away from
> unmanaged kernel-forked processes in the hotplug area. SUSE 9.3 already
> ships a udevd that listens only on netlink for hotplug messages
> and /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug is set to "".
> Hannes converted the input layer to a input_device class to get the
> event through netlink. Maybe you can have a second look at it, so that
> we can get that thing upstream soon to fix the last broken hotplug-user
> and make hotplug_path finally private.
> 

Could you send me the tlatest version, please? Lats time I think there
were some concerns about lifetime rules...

-- 
Dmitry
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