From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oliver Neukum Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 19:35:52 +0000 Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] usb-storage bug in 2.6.12-rc3 Message-Id: <200504292135.52831.oliver@neukum.org> 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 Am Freitag, 29. April 2005 21:28 schrieb David Brownell: > On Friday 29 April 2005 11:23 am, Roman Kagan wrote: > > > > ... instead of trying to make sure the attributes are available via > > sysfs at hotplug time, we can use another means to pass them to hotplug: > > we can add a routine, which, when called from the .hotplug function > > and given pointers to struct attribute and struct device, would add > > environment variable > > > > SYSFS_attrName=attrValue > > 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. > I'd rather just guarantee that the sysfs device were fully > constructed (attributes and all) before the driver binding and > hotplug stages of enumeration started. That's been a problem > all along, and that's what those recent changes were supposed > to be addressing. Even if you can make sure they had been set up before the script started, how do you make sure they are still around? Regards Oliver ------------------------------------------------------- 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