From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 01:42:07 +0000 Subject: Re: netdev-dev.d? + udevsend-wait-for-udev? Message-Id: <20040327014207.GD1425@vrfy.org> List-Id: References: <20040327005928.GA1425@vrfy.org> In-Reply-To: <20040327005928.GA1425@vrfy.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 05:33:06PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 02:26:15AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > > > > I have a patch pending for udevsend which waits for the real udev to > > > > come back and let udevsend exit with the return code of the real udev. > > > > It is possible with it, to resubmit the event if we receive a recoverable > > > > error from udev. Don't know if it's useful. > > > > > > I think I lost the last version you sent me of this. I still don't feel > > > it's necessary, and possibly dangerous if we have a heavy system load, > > > right? > > > > It's not really dangerous and it doesn't take longer for hundreds of > > debug disks. > > I was thinking the problem where we don't get around to servicing the > event in time, and it gets resent. Wasn't that part of this patch? > > If not, nevermind, can you resend it to me? udevsend just waits for udev to come back and sends back the return value to udevsend. There is no auto-resend or something. The udevsend-caller can decide what to do with a failing udev call. > I'm going to be away this weekend, so you don't have to hurry, I'm not > going to be able to apply it until Monday :) Oh, I will prepare a whole bunch of patches for you in the meantime :) Kay ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&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