[PATCH] Add subsystem support to mdev (firmware loading)

[Rob Landley]

On Friday 20 October 2006 3:05 pm, Michael-Luke Jones wrote:
> > Any any reason not to have it install
> > itself as /sbin/hotplug or set /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug pointing
> > to /sbin/mdev when run with 'mdev -s'?
> 
> 1) Because /sbin/hotplug is deprecated?

Actually, I confirmed with Greg Kroah-Hartman at OLS that it's not going away.  
The netlink stuff is needed for nosebleed servers (enormous high-end NUMA 
beasts from IBM, up where the air is thin), but the embedded world seems 
quite happy with /sbin/hotplug. :)

It's not really deprecated.  It's not in the feature-removal-schedule, and 
won't be.  And if it breaks, we'll notice and send in a patch...

Rob
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