From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Delayed hotplug events
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 23:40:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040617234008.GB5286@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40D17ECC.20501@suse.de>
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 09:56:25PM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
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> Am Donnerstag, 17. Juni 2004 20:09 schrieb Greg KH:
> > > And if the latter, how should it be solved properly?
> >
> > In userspace, with things like udevd and just simply sleeping for a
> > short ammount of time to allow the kernel to catch up to userspace :)
>
> That, frankly, is voodoo. As for reordering, it is debateable. But the
> need to wait for a _guessed_ amount of time is a clear design error.
> There's no upper bound you could give for appearance of the sysfs
> files.
I agree there is no upper bound, just make sure that the directory for
the device is still present, and you can sleep for as long as you want.
:)
greg k-h
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-17 23:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-17 11:21 Delayed hotplug events Hannes Reinecke
2004-06-17 18:09 ` Greg KH
2004-06-17 19:56 ` Oliver Neukum
2004-06-17 20:22 ` linas
2004-06-17 23:29 ` Patrick Mansfield
2004-06-17 23:39 ` Greg KH
2004-06-17 23:40 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-06-17 23:57 ` Greg KH
2004-06-18 7:44 ` Oliver Neukum
2004-06-18 8:12 ` Hannes Reinecke
2004-06-18 8:47 ` Oliver Neukum
2004-06-18 9:32 ` Hannes Reinecke
2004-06-18 11:28 ` Oliver Neukum
2004-06-19 0:07 ` Greg KH
2004-06-19 8:16 ` Oliver Neukum
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