From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: udevsend fallback
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 23:54:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040511235444.GB27499@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040511111641.GB12034@vrfy.org>
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 01:16:41PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> Hi,
> the execution of udev depends on the proper fuction of udevd, the
> serializing daemon. If we can't connect to udevd within a 20 second we
> give up and the request to create a node is lost. Hope this never happens,
> but a broken udevd may prevent udev from working.
>
> What do you think? Should we call the udev binary directly from udevsend
> instead of discarding the event? This way we would create the node, regardless
> of the state of udevd. It would be 20 seconds later and maybe not in the right
> sequence order - but the node will propably be there.
>
> Does it sound sane? What do you think?
That sounds like a good "failsafe" thing to do.
thanks,
greg k-h
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-11 23:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-11 11:16 udevsend fallback Kay Sievers
2004-05-11 12:21 ` Harald Hoyer
2004-05-11 23:54 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-05-13 7:51 ` Harald Hoyer
2004-05-13 10:10 ` Kay Sievers
2004-05-13 21:03 ` Greg KH
2004-05-14 11:22 ` Kay Sievers
2004-05-14 22:21 ` Greg KH
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