From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brownell Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 20:50:10 +0000 Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] usb-storage bug in 2.6.12-rc3 Message-Id: <200504291350.11219.david-b@pacbell.net> List-Id: References: <1114633284.16803.17.camel@daxter.boston.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <1114633284.16803.17.camel@daxter.boston.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Friday 29 April 2005 12:35 pm, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Freitag, 29. April 2005 21:28 schrieb David Brownell: > > On Friday 29 April 2005 11:23 am, Roman Kagan wrote: > > > > > > ... add environment variable ... > > > > Color me amused. That was the original way to pass information > > to hotplug agents ... back then (2.4.0.test10 or so), there was > > usually no other way to export the relevant data. > > Does that mean it was a bad idea? At least it makes sure that > there are less race conditions. It was an adequate-but-insufficient-in-general idea. As I recall observing at the time. Insufficient since there's actually no limit to the amount of information that might be needed to fully process a given hotplug event, and since most of that information wasn't needed only at hotplug time either. Ergo my comment that making sysfs do the right thing is a better approach... ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. Get your fingers limbered up and give it your best shot. 4 great events, 4 opportunities to win big! Highest score wins.NEC IT Guy Games. Play to win an NEC 61 plasma display. Visit http://www.necitguy.com/?r _______________________________________________ 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