From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 12:53:38 +0000 Subject: Re: cold plugging Message-Id: <20060116125338.GA10738@vrfy.org> List-Id: References: <200601131415.30207.treeve@scarlet.be> In-Reply-To: <200601131415.30207.treeve@scarlet.be> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 11:13:40PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Saturday 14 January 2006 08:27, Kay Sievers wrote: > > > > Which modprobe for which module is it, that returns before events for > > the devices are generated? > > Everything that has to do with serio - i8042, atkbd, psmouse, etc. > Device creation and driver binding/unbinding is offloaded to kseriod > thread so it is quite likely that module init function returns early. Ah, good to know that "input" does that too. usb-storage does that for long, it has a default internal timeout of 5 seconds to let the device "settle down". The modprobe returns before the devices are created. Thanks, Kay ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ 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