From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265427AbUBPIW2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Feb 2004 03:22:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265433AbUBPIW2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Feb 2004 03:22:28 -0500 Received: from gate.in-addr.de ([212.8.193.158]:60905 "EHLO mx.in-addr.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265427AbUBPIWZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Feb 2004 03:22:25 -0500 Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 09:19:45 +0100 From: Lars Marowsky-Bree To: Arjan van de Ven , Joe Thornber Cc: Linux Mailing List , axboe@suse.de Subject: Re: dm core patches Message-ID: <20040216081945.GF20998@marowsky-bree.de> References: <20040210163548.GC27507@reti> <20040211101659.GF3427@marowsky-bree.de> <20040211103541.GW27507@reti> <20040212185145.GY21298@marowsky-bree.de> <20040212201340.GB1898@reti> <20040213151213.GR21298@marowsky-bree.de> <20040213153936.GF15736@reti> <1076688539.4441.2.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1076688539.4441.2.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Ctuhulu: HASTUR Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2004-02-13T17:08:59, Arjan van de Ven said: > one thing you can do is provide a way for drivers to wake the userspace > tester early. Say by default it polls every minute, but if the fiber > channel driver gets a LIP UP event it (via a central API) makes the > userspace daemon *now*. I may be missing something obvious, but a LIP UP should be accompanied with a round of 'device detections' on that link, which already should trigger a few hotplug events, no? So this seems pretty much solved. Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Brée -- High Availability & Clustering \ ever tried. ever failed. no matter. SUSE Labs | try again. fail again. fail better. Research & Development, SUSE LINUX AG \ -- Samuel Beckett