From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add TIMEOUT to firmware_class hotplug event
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:07:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1111057675.6675.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050317054602.GA14459@kroah.com>
On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 21:46 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 03:34:31AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 09:25 +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> > > The current implementation of the firmware class breaks a fundamental
> > > assumption in udevd: that the physical device can be initialised fully
> > > prior to executing the next event for that device.
> >
> > Here we add a TIMEOUT value to the hotplug environment of the firmware
> > requesting event. I will adapt udevd not to wait for anything else, if
> > it finds a TIMEOUT key.
>
> Can't you just trigger off of the FIRMWARE variable instead?
Sure, that will work too. I just thought it would be nice to give
userspace a hint about the event behavior the kernel expects, instead of
adding an exception to the udevd event management?
Thanks,
Kay
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-17 12:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-17 2:34 [PATCH] add TIMEOUT to firmware_class hotplug event Kay Sievers
2005-03-17 5:46 ` Greg KH
2005-03-17 11:07 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2005-03-17 22:55 ` Greg KH
2005-03-17 23:56 ` Greg KH
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