Re: [PATCH] udev enhancements to use kernel event queue

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 09:03:19AM -0700, Steven Dake wrote:
> devfs is not appropriate as it does not allow for complex policy with 
> external attributes that the kernel is unaware of.  For an example, lets 
> take the situation where a policy must access a cluster-wide manager to 
> determine some information before it can make a policy decision.  For 
> that to occur, there must be sockets, and hopefully libc, which puts the 
> entire thing in user space.  Who would want to write policies in the 
> kernel?  uck.

Look at devfsd, it is in userspace.

greg k-h