From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scott James Remnant Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 19:13:29 +0000 Subject: Re: cold plugging Message-Id: <1137179609.8232.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-21wYrvHJsILf/snot3vq" List-Id: References: <200601131415.30207.treeve@scarlet.be> In-Reply-To: <200601131415.30207.treeve@scarlet.be> To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org --=-21wYrvHJsILf/snot3vq Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 18:47 +0000, Darren Salt wrote: > I demand that Alexander E. Patrakov may or may not have written... >=20 > > Kay Sievers wrote: > [snip] > >> To wait for the events to finish (if you need to), I do: > >> loop=3D300 > >> while test -d /dev/.udev/queue; do > >> sleep 0.1; > >> test "$loop" -gt 0 || break > >> loop=3D$(($loop - 1)) > >> done >=20 > > USB uevents easily get past this loop. >=20 > Also slower machines. I have a machine (PII 366) here which has randomly > failed to create /dev/hda* in time, causing problems for fsck; doubling t= he > timeout avoids the problem. >=20 This is almost certainly due to the buggy IDE subsystem patch in Debian's kernel. Scott --=20 Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist? --=-21wYrvHJsILf/snot3vq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDx/vZIexP3IStZ2wRAmNrAJ9zMXExq185u3dZ7XEi8tsA/QcAGgCfcbcj bDTFsULR47v+osqSuYFxhA0= =Mc79 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-21wYrvHJsILf/snot3vq-- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel