On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 10:15:28PM -0400, Arun Thomas wrote: > On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 12:07 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > > No, it should be fine. Have you run 'udevmonitor' to see if udev > > catches this event? Perhaps that is why your program isn't seeing it. > > Thanks. That's exactly my problem. I should have thought of that. Is > there a way to have udev ignore certain uevents? I'd like to have the > kernel trigger some custom kobject_actions that are only handled by my > userspace application. > > I suppose I could also have udev run an external program that tells my > app when udev sees certain kobject_actions. I'm guessing that's the > preferred solution? Yes it is. Or listen for the dbus message that will be generated by HAL for that event. That way any number of programs can act on the same message. thanks, greg k-h -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
