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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: kay.sievers@vrfy.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: net: swich device attribute creation to default attrs
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 20:01:30 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051219040130.GA29145@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051218.175938.54428509.davem@davemloft.net>

On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 05:59:38PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 01:42:56 +0100
> 
> > Recent udev versions don't longer cover bad sysfs timing with built-in
> > logic. Explicit rules are required to do that. For net devices, the
> > following is needed:
> >   ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="net", WAIT_FOR_SYSFS="address"
> > to handle access to net device properties from an event handler without
> > races.
> > 
> > This patch changes the main net attributes to be created by the driver
> > core, which is done _before_ the event is sent out and will not require
> > the stat() loop of the WAIT_FOR_SYSFS key.
> 
> Kay/Greg, this looks fine, feel free to merge it in.

Will do, I'll add it to my tree, thanks for looking at it.

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2005-12-19  4:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-19  0:42 net: swich device attribute creation to default attrs Kay Sievers
2005-12-19  1:59 ` David S. Miller
2005-12-19  4:01   ` Greg KH [this message]

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