From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 01:28:25 +0000 Subject: Re: synchronization (or lack thereof) for uevents Message-Id: <20051018012825.GB7729@kroah.com> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 11:26:21AM -0400, goggin, edward wrote: > Is it possible to ignore a hotplug event and deal only with the associated > uevent? Yes, udevd does that today when we set /proc/kernel/sys/hotplug to NULL > It seems that the asynchronous nature of uevents, (that is, they are sent to > a netlink socket as datagrams -- therefore without a reply > acknowledgement), makes it difficult to reliably act upon one when it > is possible that multiple, related uevents, which although being sent > later, may affect the servicing of the current one. No, it seems to work quite well. What problems are you having? thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ 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