From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:56:13 +0000 Subject: Re: Intermittent udev failures with USB devices Message-Id: <1216130173.4346.5.camel@linux.site> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 13:54 -0700, Leonid wrote: > > I guess you need: > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h.5f10e4f0a9649186d8a8c793822b2e0dae8373 > > I guess I was just a few months behind on reporting this problem! I > tried 2.6.26 RC3 and the permissions now seem to be reliably applied. > > I'm not sure why I didn't encounter this problem on 2.6.23 given that > the patch description states this was a long-standing issue, but I > suppose that that is not worth exploring further. I'm pretty sure it's the new process scheduler, that works that well, that we hit the timing issue with the event process before the kernel has created the files. Long ago Con's scheduler triggered the same problem, but we didn't really understand what was going wrong that time. It should be all fine now. Thanks, Kay