From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Delayed hotplug events
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 07:44:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200406180944.37472.oliver@neukum.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40D17ECC.20501@suse.de>
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Am Freitag, 18. Juni 2004 01:57 schrieb Greg KH:
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 03:22:07PM -0500, linas@austin.ibm.com wrote:
> >
> > By contrast, I can't see what's architecturally unclean about
> > having device drivers make the call as to when they think they
> > are finally up and ready to go, e.g. by making one puny subroutine
> > call at the end of thier init sequence. Why would this be a bad idea?
>
> Because it would be a major architecture change in the middle of a
> stable kernel series. I'm not going to agree to do that at this time.
If you are willing to use a model of a blocking counter you can confine
the changes to just the actual hotplug generation. The change is well
encapsuled. Drivers not caring about the block/unblock affair simply get
the old behavior.
It's less elegant than waiting for the specific files, but workable.
Regards
Oliver
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-18 7:44 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
2004-06-17 23:57 ` Greg KH
2004-06-18 7:44 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
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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