From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Ian Campbell <icampbell@arcom.com>
Cc: "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <cate@debian.org>,
"Marco d'Itri" <md@Linux.IT>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: udev is too slow creating devices
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:11:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040915161137.GB21971@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1095258966.18800.34.camel@icampbell-debian>
On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 03:36:06PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 14:55, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote:
> > Old behaviour (modprobe "waits" for the creation of device):
>
> I wonder if it would be feasible for modprobe (or some other utility) to
> have a new option: --wait-for=/dev/something which would wait for the
> device node to appear.
Why? What's the point? You are asking to paper over the way the kernel
works (remember storage devices are on lots of different kinds of busses
today...)
The fact that a static /dev keeps these race conditions from showing up
as often as they really are there is no reason to keep trying to rely on
old, undefined behaviour :)
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-15 16:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-14 18:33 udev is too slow creating devices Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2004-09-14 18:42 ` Greg KH
2004-09-14 19:21 ` Chris Meadors
2004-09-14 19:40 ` Chris Friesen
2004-09-14 19:52 ` Greg KH
2004-09-14 20:00 ` Chris Friesen
2004-09-14 20:43 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2004-09-14 21:35 ` Greg KH
2004-09-14 21:45 ` Marco d'Itri
2004-09-14 21:51 ` Greg KH
2004-09-14 22:47 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-14 23:04 ` Greg KH
2004-09-14 23:20 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-14 23:34 ` Gianni Tedesco
2004-09-14 23:58 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-15 16:15 ` Greg KH
2004-09-15 19:21 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-15 22:09 ` Chris Friesen
2004-09-15 22:15 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-15 22:25 ` Greg KH
2004-09-15 22:23 ` Greg KH
2004-09-15 22:46 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-15 13:55 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2004-09-15 14:36 ` Ian Campbell
2004-09-15 15:20 ` Tonnerre
2004-09-15 15:45 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2004-09-15 16:12 ` Greg KH
2004-09-15 16:51 ` Marc Ballarin
2004-09-15 18:00 ` Greg KH
2004-09-19 16:51 ` Jon Masters
2004-09-19 18:53 ` Andreas Jellinghaus
2004-09-20 2:16 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2004-09-17 8:06 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2004-09-15 16:11 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-09-15 16:09 ` Greg KH
2004-09-17 7:48 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2004-09-14 22:03 ` Marc Ballarin
[not found] <http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/9/14/316@localhost.localdomain>
2004-09-14 20:30 ` Michael Thonke
[not found] <http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/9/15/119@localhost.localdomain>
2004-09-15 14:26 ` Michael Thonke
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-18 19:25 Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2004-09-18 21:24 ` Greg KH
2004-09-18 19:44 Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2004-09-18 20:37 ` Marc Ballarin
2004-09-18 21:30 ` Greg KH
2004-09-19 0:06 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2004-09-19 0:41 ` Greg KH
2004-09-19 8:18 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2004-09-20 4:19 ` Greg KH
2004-09-19 4:38 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-09-19 8:27 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2004-09-19 11:53 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2004-09-19 17:32 ` Greg KH
2004-09-19 18:43 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-09-20 4:11 ` Greg KH
2004-09-20 10:52 ` Jon Masters
2004-09-19 12:00 ` Marc Ballarin
2004-09-19 14:25 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2004-09-19 15:14 ` Marc Ballarin
2004-09-19 16:00 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2004-09-19 17:11 ` Marc Ballarin
2004-09-19 17:30 ` Greg KH
2004-09-20 2:29 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2004-09-20 16:17 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2004-09-29 23:38 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-09-29 23:53 ` Greg KH
2004-09-19 19:40 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2004-09-20 0:05 ` Kyle Moffett
2004-09-20 4:06 ` Greg KH
2004-09-20 8:54 ` Marc Ballarin
2004-09-20 0:03 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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