From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Nick Craig-Wood <ncw1@axis.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>,
Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hotplug (was devfs)
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 09:02:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021113170204.GC5446@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021113104809.D2386@axis.demon.co.uk>
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:48:09AM +0000, Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
>
> We fixed these problems by removing hotplug and loading the relevant
> kernel modules in the correct order and voila a perfectly
> deterministic order for the /dev/ttyUSBs with all devices initialised.
deterministic for you :)
What hotplug will do is allow you to assign a /dev entry to a specific
device, so that you can go off of the topology, and not just the order
in which the devices are found. That is how this problem will be
solved properly.
> Plugging in our USB bus with 24 devices on it does indeed produce a
> mini-forkbomb effect ;-) (Especially since these Keyspan devices are
> initialised twice - once without firmware and once with firmware.)
>
> So - perhaps hotplug ought to be serialised?
No, it's not needed for this problem. There has been talk of
serializing stuff in userspace, which is the proper way to handle some
of the remove before add was seen problems.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-13 17:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-12 9:32 devfs Ian Molton
2002-11-12 9:43 ` devfs Xavier Bestel
2002-11-12 9:49 ` devfs john slee
2002-11-12 10:01 ` devfs Sean Neakums
2002-11-12 12:51 ` devfs Oliver Neukum
2002-11-13 10:48 ` hotplug (was devfs) Nick Craig-Wood
2002-11-13 17:02 ` Greg KH [this message]
2002-11-13 18:06 ` Nick Craig-Wood
2002-11-13 18:04 ` Greg KH
2002-11-14 11:46 ` Oliver Neukum
2002-11-12 10:05 ` devfs Xavier Bestel
2002-11-12 10:04 ` devfs Alexander Viro
2002-11-12 10:25 ` devfs Ian Molton
2002-11-12 10:46 ` devfs Dave Jones
2002-11-12 11:08 ` devfs Ian Molton
2002-11-12 11:24 ` devfs Rando Christensen
2002-11-12 13:30 ` devfs Alexander Viro
2002-11-12 14:53 ` devfs Alan Cox
2002-11-12 15:37 ` devfs Ian Molton
2002-11-12 11:29 ` devfs Helge Hafting
2002-11-12 15:40 ` devfs Greg KH
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-13 18:45 hotplug (was devfs) Ed Vance
2002-11-13 18:45 ` Greg KH
2002-11-13 18:59 Ed Vance
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