From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Device count (to be done with)
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 08:45:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-100297039210709@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-100274805227939@msgid-missing>
> >Here I must disagree. You need to add more code to the kernel to return
> >information on successfully binding drivers to devices to user space than
> > by simply handling the counter.
>
> Of course, I understand that this system must be as robust as possible,
> but I was viewing things from the most global perspective. I mean I was
> only referring to "kernel modules" rather than devices. My thoughts were
> as simple as "two module loads will result in the module actually being
> uloaded only after two module unloads". I was just referring to module
> "convenience" counts which would be very useful (even necessary) to
> have. Now, if there need to be subsystem-specific error-handling
> mechanisms that's fine (the agent scripts can very well work with this).
There's no need. The module counter infrastructure is already there.
Another counter to be incremented on a further device addition is the
simplest solution.
Regards
Oliver
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-13 8:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-10 20:06 Device count (to be done with) Stamatis Mitrofanis
2001-10-11 15:01 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-10-12 22:53 ` Stamatis Mitrofanis
2001-10-13 8:45 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2001-10-15 0:15 ` Stamatis Mitrofanis
2001-10-15 9:39 ` Oliver.Neukum
2001-10-15 22:27 ` Stamatis Mitrofanis
2001-10-16 4:03 ` Keith Owens
2001-10-16 5:37 ` Greg KH
2001-10-16 5:59 ` Keith Owens
2001-10-16 7:02 ` David Brownell
2001-10-16 8:23 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-10-16 8:29 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-10-16 8:47 ` Keith Owens
2001-10-16 12:00 ` Oliver Neukum
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