On Saturday 29 March 2008, Vladimir Dronnikov wrote:
> Configuration should be cached IMO when using -s: heuristics shows
> that the amount of rules is less than amount of device nodes. And if
> we want to do things uniformly (which is a powerful way to shrink the
> code) the configuration should be cached even if mdev is used as
> hotplug helper.

the only way it could be cached for the hotplug part is if mdev was a daemon.  
but if it were a daemon, it wouldnt be using the hotplug mechanism, it'd be 
using netlink sockets.

> If such a behavior differs too much from mdev concepts we should start
> a fork of mdev which would accumulate the features vanilla mdev
> refuses to have.

there is already a fork.  it's called udev.
-mike

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