Re: [PATCH] add TIMEOUT to firmware_class hotplug event

[Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>]

On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 21:46 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 03:34:31AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 09:25 +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> > > The current implementation of the firmware class breaks a fundamental
> > > assumption in udevd: that the physical device can be initialised fully
> > > prior to executing the next event for that device.
> > 
> > Here we add a TIMEOUT value to the hotplug environment of the firmware
> > requesting event. I will adapt udevd not to wait for anything else, if
> > it finds a TIMEOUT key.
> 
> Can't you just trigger off of the FIRMWARE variable instead?

Sure, that will work too. I just thought it would be nice to give
userspace a hint about the event behavior the kernel expects, instead of
adding an exception to the udevd event management?

Thanks,
Kay