From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Marco d'Itri" Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 10:18:57 +0000 Subject: Re: udev regression from 167 to 168 on notion ink adam Message-Id: <20110505101857.GA13299@bongo.bofh.it> List-Id: References: <809580245.144501.1304521074555.JavaMail.fmail@mwmweb069> In-Reply-To: <809580245.144501.1304521074555.JavaMail.fmail@mwmweb069> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On May 05, Kay Sievers 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