From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jack Howarth <howarth@bromo.msbb.uc.edu>
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: usb hotplug problems with 2.6.10
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 09:45:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050203174516.GA24272@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050203150310.65CB71DC09A@bromo.msbb.uc.edu>
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 10:03:10AM -0500, Jack Howarth wrote:
> Alan,
> I had mentioned a couple weeks back that with kernel 2.6.10,
> the ability to hotplug usb keys in Fedora Core 2 and 3 has been broken.
> There is actually a bugzilla report on this with some useful information
> on manifestation of the problem....
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=119140
>
> The problem can be hacked around for the moment in hotplug by
> repeatedly calling updfstab until the device appears in both
> /proc/scsi/scsi and /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usb-storage but it
> would be nice is this could be fixed in the kernel.
How do you propose "fixing" this in the kernel? Userspace needs to be
changed to go off of the /dev node showing up, not the usb hotplug event
(which can happen much sooner, as you have found out.)
I would recommend bringing this up with the Fedora developers.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-03 18:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-03 15:03 usb hotplug problems with 2.6.10 Jack Howarth
2005-02-03 17:45 ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-02-03 18:39 ` Jason L Tibbitts III
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