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From: Oliver Neukum <Oliver.Neukum@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 23:34:00 +0000
Subject: Re: Adding PCMCIA support to the kernel tree -- developers needed.
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> You're right, it _can_ be done by synthesizing hotpluf
> events from the initscripts.  In fact, that's how it
> must be done.

I am afraid it cannot be simply done from the init scripts.
Simply parsing proc has an unavoidable race condition.
You need to lock it.

	HTH
		Oliver

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