Re: [RFC] /sbin/hotplug multiplexor

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 11:43:17PM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> 
> > > Well, for a little elegance you might introduce subdirectories for each
> > > type of hotplug event and use only them.
> >
> > No, that's for the individual scripts/programs to decide.  For example,
> > that's what the current hotplug scripts do, but that's not at all what
> > the udev program wants to do.
> 
> So have them put a symlink into each subdirectory. This is the way it's
> done for init since times immemorial.

But the number of different "types" keeps growing.  For some programs
(like udev) they really don't care about the type, and if you add a new
type, it still works just fine.  Other programs do care about the type,
so they can look at it and make a judgement based on it.

thanks,

greg k-h