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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: synchronization (or lack thereof) for uevents
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 02:33:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051018023320.GA8622@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C2EEB4E538D3DC48BF57F391F422779321AD2B@SRMANNING.eng.emc.com>


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On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 09:53:20PM -0400, goggin, edward wrote:
> Multipathd is trying to handle the uevents for removal of
> multiple SCSI target LUNs for multiple targets.  Uevents
> for each LUN for each of the multiple targets are being
> generated concurrently.  Multiple uevents can be related
> if they are for paths to the same SCSI logical unit.

Then sort by that unit based on the sequence number like udevd does.

> It also appears that the code following the kobject_hotplug()
> call in del_gendisk() has executed since when a uevent is
> serviced, the call to kobject_del() has already deleted the
> sysfs directory for the block device being removed.

Yes, you get the event after the sysfs stuff is gone, how else could
that work?  :)

thanks,

greg k-h


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-10-18  2:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-17 15:26 synchronization (or lack thereof) for uevents goggin, edward
2005-10-18  1:06 ` Kay Sievers
2005-10-18  1:28 ` Greg KH
2005-10-18  1:53 ` goggin, edward
2005-10-18  2:33 ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-10-18  2:42 ` goggin, edward
2005-10-18  2:49 ` goggin, edward
2005-10-18  4:36 ` Greg KH

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