From: Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: udev enhancements
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 14:41:42 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41C19EA6.2090700@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41C1551F.6060601@suse.de>
Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> And it would also break the deadlock we're having now:
> Removable IDE devices _always_ do a re-read partition on _open_.
> So if we're using device_id to fetch information about a partition, we're
> triggering hotplug events for each partition, which causes device_id to
> re-run, which causes hotplug-events, which ...
>
> Not nice. And no clean way to resolve it in kernel-land, either, as most
> removable IDE devices have no clean way to detect a media change.
in fedora udev-048 we use in udev.rules:
KERNEL="hd[a-z]*", BUS="ide", SYSFS{removable}="1", NAME{ignore_remove}="%k"
this prevents the removal of the device nodes.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-16 14:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-16 9:27 udev enhancements Hannes Reinecke
2004-12-16 14:41 ` Harald Hoyer [this message]
2004-12-16 14:48 ` Olaf Hering
2004-12-16 21:55 ` Kay Sievers
2004-12-21 16:59 ` Greg KH
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