From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick Mansfield Subject: Re: How to add/drop SCSI drives from within the driver? Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 08:52:00 -0800 Message-ID: <20050125165200.GA30003@us.ibm.com> References: <0E3FA95632D6D047BA649F95DAB60E57033BCCC6@exa-atlanta> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0E3FA95632D6D047BA649F95DAB60E57033BCCC6@exa-atlanta> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "Mukker, Atul" Cc: 'James Bottomley' , Linux Kernel , SCSI Mailing List List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Atul - On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 11:27:36AM -0500, Mukker, Atul wrote: > After writing the "- - -" to the scan attribute, the management applications > assume the udev has created the relevant entries in the /dev directly and > try to use the devices _immediately_ and fail to see the devices > > Is there a hotplug event which would tell the management applications that > the device nodes have actually been created now and ready to be used? Read the udev man page section, the part right before "FILES". Try putting a script under /etc/dev.d/default/*.dev. Then you can get more specific with an /etc/dev.d/scsi/*.dev script or something else. I just tried something simple but did not get it working. Try linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net list for help. -- Patrick Mansfield