From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 23:39:27 +0000 Subject: Re: Delayed hotplug events Message-Id: <20040617233927.GA5286@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <40D17ECC.20501@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <40D17ECC.20501@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 04:29:20PM -0700, Patrick Mansfield wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 11:09:30AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 01:21:48PM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > > > > As an example of how it should be used I've patched > > > drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c:scsi_sysfs_add_sdev(), so that the device > > > "add" event will now be triggered only _after_ the device has been > > > initialised properly, including all sysfs attributes. > > > > > > Is this approach feasible or am I completely off kilter here? > > > > Off kilter :) > > > > > And if the latter, how should it be solved properly? > > > > In userspace, with things like udevd and just simply sleeping for a > > short ammount of time to allow the kernel to catch up to userspace :) > > I thought you were going to fix this in 2.7, or do you mean for 2.6, fix > it in userspace? Yes, for 2.6 do it in userspace. For 2.7, I'm going to revisit this to try to keep this from happening. thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by The 2004 JavaOne(SM) Conference Learn from the experts at JavaOne(SM), Sun's Worldwide Java Developer Conference, June 28 - July 1 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA REGISTER AND SAVE! http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf Priority Code NWMGYKND _______________________________________________ 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