From: "Marco d'Itri" <md@linux.it>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: udev regression from 167 to 168 on notion ink adam
Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 10:18:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110505101857.GA13299@bongo.bofh.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <809580245.144501.1304521074555.JavaMail.fmail@mwmweb069>
On May 05, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:
> Sure, but what should we do? We are in a poll() loop, that will never
> block if we don't get the stuff out of the file descriptor that wakes
> us up. We could exit? We can certainly try to print something that is
> easier to read than a strace.
Just aborting looks fine to me, at least it will be obvious that
something is wrong.
> But on the other hand we require a certain kernel version and it's
> symbols to work. There should never be a ENOSYS unless something is
> broken somewhere else.
This is why I think crashing is OK.
--
ciao,
Marco
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-05 10:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-04 14:57 udev regression from 167 to 168 on notion ink adam Johannes Schauer
2011-05-04 15:20 ` Marco d'Itri
2011-05-04 16:03 ` Kay Sievers
2011-05-04 16:31 ` Gabor Z. Papp
2011-05-04 16:36 ` Kay Sievers
2011-05-04 18:39 ` Johannes Schauer
2011-05-05 8:33 ` Johannes Schauer
2011-05-05 9:33 ` Kay Sievers
2011-05-05 9:38 ` Kay Sievers
2011-05-05 9:56 ` Marco d'Itri
2011-05-05 10:06 ` Kay Sievers
2011-05-05 10:18 ` Marco d'Itri [this message]
2011-05-05 11:32 ` Johannes Schauer
2011-05-05 12:04 ` Johannes Schauer
2011-05-05 15:13 ` Kay Sievers
2011-05-05 15:37 ` Johannes Schauer
2011-05-05 15:42 ` Marco d'Itri
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