On Friday 29 April 2005 12:35 pm, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Freitag, 29. April 2005 21:28 schrieb David Brownell: > > On Friday 29 April 2005 11:23 am, Roman Kagan wrote: > > > > > > ... add environment variable ... > > > > Color me amused. That was the original way to pass information > > to hotplug agents ... back then (2.4.0.test10 or so), there was > > usually no other way to export the relevant data. > > Does that mean it was a bad idea? At least it makes sure that > there are less race conditions.
It was an adequate-but-insufficient-in-general idea. As I recall observing at the time. Insufficient since there's actually no limit to the amount of information that might be needed to fully process a given hotplug event, and since most of that information wasn't needed only at hotplug time either. Ergo my comment that making sysfs do the right thing is a better approach... ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. Get your fingers limbered up and give it your best shot. 4 great events, 4 opportunities to win big! Highest score wins.NEC IT Guy Games. Play to win an NEC 61 plasma display. Visit http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
