On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 04:27:31AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > [udev] does a *lot* of stuff that people keep asking to add to mdev. > historically i declined anything but the bare min stuff as imo, > we're wasting time reinventing a perfectly good wheel.
I'm not asking for features. I just want reliability. If people use mdev through /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug as it is currently documented, they will hit race conditions 1% of the time which may slip through their testing. (Luckily, we're hitting it about 20% of the time here). > > I'd like someone to answer my original proposal of whether or not a > > simple daemon running in a loop would suffice. I imagine the resulting > > binary would be a mere few kilobytes in size, as *all* it needs to do is > > serialize requests and pass them to mdev. Nothing more. > > writing a standalone binary does not fit the busybox design. Sorry, what I meant to say is that the resulting addition of mdevd to the busybox binary would only add a few kilobytes to its size. > i doubt mdevd would be terribly difficult to do with real netlink > sockets/daemon. And that's exactly what I'm proposing. I think I'll just do it. I'll let you know how I go :) Cheers, Bernard. _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/busybox
