Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.1 release

Nick Craig-Wood (ncw1@axis.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 11 Apr 2003 21:09:44 +0100

On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 11:12:45AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 08:02:41PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> > To help serialization and perfomance issues, it might help to add a daemon
> > mode to hotplug. The kernel calls hotplug with a pipe from which it reads
> > the event data, after a certain timeout it can close the pipe and exit.
>
> Yes, this is probably what is going to happen soon.

Excellent! This should fix our continuing problems with many
identical USB devices on one bus! In particular 6 keyspans quad
serial ports on the same USB bus never come up in the same order with
hotplug which is a bit embarrassing. Without hotplug they come up in
the right order every time!

-- 
Nick Craig-Wood
ncw1@axis.demon.co.uk
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