Recent Changes to /sbin/hotplug [LWN.net]

Recent Changes to /sbin/hotplug

Posted Feb 21, 2005 18:48 UTC (Mon) by jschrod (subscriber, #1646)
Parent article: Recent Changes to /sbin/hotplug

Thanks for this very nice overview.

One comment, though: The article would have been improved, IMO, if you would have informed

how mature hotplug-ng is; i.e., how tested in many environments
which major distributions use it (e.g., I notice that SUSE does not use it (yet?))
is this change wholeheartly accepted by the hotplug developer community, or is there resistance to keep the old script

This would have helped to evaluate this new development. The nice thing on LWN articles is that they often provide help for this evaluation as well, not ``just'' the technical facts.

Cheers, Joachim

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Recent Changes to /sbin/hotplug

Posted Mar 1, 2005 1:56 UTC (Tue) by gregkh (subscriber, #8) [Link]

Being the primary author of hotplug-ng, any opinion as to an "evaluation" of this project might be considered suspect :)

That being said, here's your answers:

> How mature hotplug-ng is
Not at all, it was only 1 week old at the time of writing this article.

> which major distros use it
None. Not even any minor ones that I know of. It's still under heavy development.

> Is it accepted by the hotplug developer community.
Not fully yet. There is a push by others to have udev do the work of hotplug-ng instead. See the linux-usb-devel mailing list for more details of this discussion if you are interested.