From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 02:33:20 +0000 Subject: Re: synchronization (or lack thereof) for uevents Message-Id: <20051018023320.GA8622@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 A: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post Q: Were do I find info about this thing called top-posting? A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? A: No. Q: Should I include quotations after my reply? On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 09:53:20PM -0400, goggin, edward wrote: > Multipathd is trying to handle the uevents for removal of > multiple SCSI target LUNs for multiple targets. Uevents > for each LUN for each of the multiple targets are being > generated concurrently. Multiple uevents can be related > if they are for paths to the same SCSI logical unit. Then sort by that unit based on the sequence number like udevd does. > It also appears that the code following the kobject_hotplug() > call in del_gendisk() has executed since when a uevent is > serviced, the call to kobject_del() has already deleted the > sysfs directory for the block device being removed. Yes, you get the event after the sysfs stuff is gone, how else could that work? :) 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