From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] usb-storage bug in 2.6.12-rc3
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 20:16:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200504292216.19220.oliver@neukum.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1114633284.16803.17.camel@daxter.boston.redhat.com>
Am Freitag, 29. April 2005 22:01 schrieb Greg KH:
> > > 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?
>
> You can't guarantee that they will not have been removed, but by at
> least saying that "the attributes will be created before you will be
> called", you let userspace go a lot faster :)
That is true, but it doesn't explain what a layer of indirection will buy
you. If you have all the data ready by the time you send a message,
you might as well send a message that includes all data available.
Regards
Oliver
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-29 20:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-27 20:21 usb-storage bug in 2.6.12-rc3 David Zeuthen
2005-04-27 21:21 ` [linux-usb-devel] " Alan Stern
2005-04-27 23:14 ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-04-28 0:47 ` Kay Sievers
2005-04-28 4:34 ` Greg KH
2005-04-28 10:21 ` Kay Sievers
2005-04-28 13:35 ` E. Oltmanns
2005-04-28 14:15 ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-04-29 14:23 ` E. Oltmanns
2005-04-29 18:23 ` [linux-usb-devel] " Roman Kagan
2005-04-29 19:28 ` David Brownell
2005-04-29 19:35 ` Oliver Neukum
2005-04-29 20:00 ` Greg KH
2005-04-29 20:01 ` Greg KH
2005-04-29 20:16 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2005-04-29 20:50 ` David Brownell
2005-04-29 21:07 ` David Zeuthen
2005-05-04 7:05 ` Roman Kagan
2005-05-18 14:19 ` David Zeuthen
2005-05-18 17:03 ` Greg KH
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