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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@nosferatu.za.org>
Cc: linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Linux Kernel Mailing Lists <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 016 release
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 23:13:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040203231341.GA22058@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1075849413.11322.6.camel@nosferatu.lan>

On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 01:03:33AM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 23:28, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 22:13, Greg KH wrote:
> > 
> > Except if I miss something major, udevsend and udevd still do not
> > work:
> > 
> 
> Skip that, it does work if SEQNUM is set :P
> 
> Anyhow, is it _really_ needed for SEQNUM to be set?  What about
> the attached patch?

Yes it is necessary, as that is what the kernel spits out.  It's also
the whole reason we need udevd :)

If you don't want to give a SEQNUM, just call udev directly.

> Then, order I have not really checked yet, but there are two things
> that bother me:
> 
> 1) latency is even higher than before (btw Greg, is there going to be
> more sysfs/whatever fixes to get udev even faster, or is this the
> limit?)

Care to measure the latency somehow?  The first event is a bit slow, but
everything after that is as fast as I ever remember it being.

> 2) events gets missing.  If you for example use udevsend in the
> initscript that populate /dev (/udev), the amount of nodes/links
> created is off with about 10-50 (once about 250) entries.

Hm, that's not good.  I'll go test that and see what's happening.

thanks,

greg k-h


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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@nosferatu.za.org>
Cc: linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Linux Kernel Mailing Lists <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 016 release
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 15:13:41 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040203231341.GA22058@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1075849413.11322.6.camel@nosferatu.lan>

On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 01:03:33AM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 23:28, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 22:13, Greg KH wrote:
> > 
> > Except if I miss something major, udevsend and udevd still do not
> > work:
> > 
> 
> Skip that, it does work if SEQNUM is set :P
> 
> Anyhow, is it _really_ needed for SEQNUM to be set?  What about
> the attached patch?

Yes it is necessary, as that is what the kernel spits out.  It's also
the whole reason we need udevd :)

If you don't want to give a SEQNUM, just call udev directly.

> Then, order I have not really checked yet, but there are two things
> that bother me:
> 
> 1) latency is even higher than before (btw Greg, is there going to be
> more sysfs/whatever fixes to get udev even faster, or is this the
> limit?)

Care to measure the latency somehow?  The first event is a bit slow, but
everything after that is as fast as I ever remember it being.

> 2) events gets missing.  If you for example use udevsend in the
> initscript that populate /dev (/udev), the amount of nodes/links
> created is off with about 10-50 (once about 250) entries.

Hm, that's not good.  I'll go test that and see what's happening.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-03 23:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-03 20:13 [ANNOUNCE] udev 016 release Greg KH
2004-02-03 20:13 ` Greg KH
2004-02-03 20:49 ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-02-03 23:14   ` Greg KH
2004-02-03 23:14     ` Greg KH
2004-02-03 21:28 ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-02-03 23:03   ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-02-03 23:13     ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-02-03 23:13       ` Greg KH
2004-02-04  0:01       ` Kay Sievers
2004-02-04  0:01         ` Kay Sievers
2004-02-04  4:25       ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-02-08 11:27         ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-02-08 13:01           ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-02-03 21:30 ` Marco d'Itri
2004-02-03 21:43 ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-02-11 22:13   ` Greg KH
2004-02-11 22:13     ` Greg KH
2004-02-11 22:27     ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-02-12  1:19       ` Greg KH
2004-02-12  1:19         ` Greg KH
2004-02-03 22:23 ` Eric Sandall
2004-02-03 22:46 ` Greg KH
2004-02-03 23:33 ` Eric Sandall
2004-02-03 23:53 ` Greg KH
2004-02-04  0:35 ` Eric Sandall
2004-02-04 22:31 ` Greg KH

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