Re: netdev-dev.d? + udevsend-wait-for-udev?

[Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 05:33:06PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 02:26:15AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > > > I have a patch pending for udevsend which waits for the real udev to
> > > > come back and let udevsend exit with the return code of the real udev.
> > > > It is possible with it, to resubmit the event if we receive a recoverable
> > > > error from udev. Don't know if it's useful.
> > > 
> > > I think I lost the last version you sent me of this.  I still don't feel
> > > it's necessary, and possibly dangerous if we have a heavy system load,
> > > right?
> > 
> > It's not really dangerous and it doesn't take longer for hundreds of
> > debug disks.
> 
> I was thinking the problem where we don't get around to servicing the
> event in time, and it gets resent.  Wasn't that part of this patch?
> 
> If not, nevermind, can you resend it to me?

udevsend just waits for udev to come back and sends back the return value
to udevsend. There is no auto-resend or something. The udevsend-caller can
decide what to do with a failing udev call.

> I'm going to be away this weekend, so you don't have to hurry, I'm not
> going to be able to apply it until Monday :)

Oh, I will prepare a whole bunch of patches for you in the meantime :)

Kay


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