devFS?

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Tue Dec 9 07:33:54 PST 2003


On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 08:10:15AM -0500, Craig Dooley wrote:
> I've had some ideas on the subject, most of them involved waiting for
> other parts of the system to flush out, like async kernel-> userspace
> messaging and perhaps VFS stabilization.  I was also thinking there
> could be one userspace hotplugd (updated, whatever) to handle all the
> systems instead of usbd, pccardd, devfsd, etc.  Maybe it could be
> written in to have the daemon save permissions when exiting/rebooting?
> Just some ideas i've been having.

I fully agree with this. Both to wait for the async messagings
between kernel<->userspace and to unite the various helper daemons.





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