From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] usb-storage bug in 2.6.12-rc3
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 20:50:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200504291350.11219.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1114633284.16803.17.camel@daxter.boston.redhat.com>
On Friday 29 April 2005 12:35 pm, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Freitag, 29. April 2005 21:28 schrieb David Brownell:
> > On Friday 29 April 2005 11:23 am, Roman Kagan wrote:
> > >
> > > ... add environment variable ...
> >
> > Color me amused. That was the original way to pass information
> > to hotplug agents ... back then (2.4.0.test10 or so), there was
> > usually no other way to export the relevant data.
>
> Does that mean it was a bad idea? At least it makes sure that
> there are less race conditions.
It was an adequate-but-insufficient-in-general idea. As I recall
observing at the time.
Insufficient since there's actually no limit to the amount of
information that might be needed to fully process a given hotplug
event, and since most of that information wasn't needed only at
hotplug time either. Ergo my comment that making sysfs do
the right thing is a better approach...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-29 20:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-27 20:21 usb-storage bug in 2.6.12-rc3 David Zeuthen
2005-04-27 21:21 ` [linux-usb-devel] " Alan Stern
2005-04-27 23:14 ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-04-28 0:47 ` Kay Sievers
2005-04-28 4:34 ` Greg KH
2005-04-28 10:21 ` Kay Sievers
2005-04-28 13:35 ` E. Oltmanns
2005-04-28 14:15 ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-04-29 14:23 ` E. Oltmanns
2005-04-29 18:23 ` [linux-usb-devel] " Roman Kagan
2005-04-29 19:28 ` David Brownell
2005-04-29 19:35 ` Oliver Neukum
2005-04-29 20:00 ` Greg KH
2005-04-29 20:01 ` Greg KH
2005-04-29 20:16 ` Oliver Neukum
2005-04-29 20:50 ` David Brownell [this message]
2005-04-29 21:07 ` David Zeuthen
2005-05-04 7:05 ` Roman Kagan
2005-05-18 14:19 ` David Zeuthen
2005-05-18 17:03 ` Greg KH
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