> From: "Tim Jansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 12:40 AM
>
> I'm working on the device registry patch (www.tjansen.de/devreg) that allows
> you to retrieve the DevFS filename of a physical device. The next release
> will be in a couple of days and adds a DEVICEID environment
> variable to the hotplug invocation. You can use give this device id to
> libdevreg (or lsdevreg in a shell script) to get the name of its device
> nodes.
>
> Note that devreg is experimental code and may be a dead end. I have not
> got any reaction from Linus or other kernel hackers, so I don't know
> whether it has a chance to be included in a official release. And even if
> it does, it wont before 2.5.
I meant to send some. I think you're right about much of the info
that needs to be exposed -- collecting that is good stuff. But I'm
not sure the "how" (file with lots of metadata, another syntax to
parse) or "what" (notably for USB, where I have a few opinions :)
are "cooked" enough yet. But as you said: not before 2.5; there's
enough time to integrate this with other hotplug support (for
example, maybe the "scsimon" work).
When I follow up, I'll do so to the hotplug list.
- Dave
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