From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Ihar 'Philips' Filipau" <filia@softhome.net>
Cc: Marc Ballarin <Ballarin.Marc@gmx.de>,
benh@kernel.crashing.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: udev is too slow creating devices
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 21:06:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040920040649.GA5344@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <414DE099.8040202@softhome.net>
On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 09:40:09PM +0200, Ihar 'Philips' Filipau wrote:
> >For example, modprobe ide-cd will succeed even when no CD-ROMs are
> >present. The old script would break in this case, the new one wouldn't be
> >called at all.
> >
>
> You are wrong. Hardware driver must fail, when hardware is not
> present/not detected. Simple as that.
I'm sorry, but this is not how Linux device drivers work. It's been
this way for over 4 years, and hopefully we have fixed up almost all
drivers to be able to be loaded even if the hardware they are using
isn't currently present. Do you know of any we have missed?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-20 4:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-18 19:44 udev is too slow creating devices Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2004-09-18 20:37 ` Marc Ballarin
2004-09-18 21:30 ` Greg KH
2004-09-19 0:06 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2004-09-19 0:41 ` Greg KH
2004-09-19 8:18 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2004-09-20 4:19 ` Greg KH
2004-09-19 4:38 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-09-19 8:27 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2004-09-19 11:53 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2004-09-19 17:32 ` Greg KH
2004-09-19 18:43 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-09-20 4:11 ` Greg KH
2004-09-20 10:52 ` Jon Masters
2004-09-19 12:00 ` Marc Ballarin
2004-09-19 14:25 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2004-09-19 15:14 ` Marc Ballarin
2004-09-19 16:00 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2004-09-19 17:11 ` Marc Ballarin
2004-09-19 17:30 ` Greg KH
2004-09-20 2:29 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2004-09-20 16:17 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2004-09-29 23:38 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-09-29 23:53 ` Greg KH
2004-09-19 19:40 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2004-09-20 0:05 ` Kyle Moffett
2004-09-20 4:06 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-09-20 8:54 ` Marc Ballarin
2004-09-20 0:03 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-18 19:25 Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2004-09-18 21:24 ` Greg KH
[not found] <http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/9/15/119@localhost.localdomain>
2004-09-15 14:26 ` Michael Thonke
[not found] <http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/9/14/316@localhost.localdomain>
2004-09-14 20:30 ` Michael Thonke
2004-09-14 18:33 Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2004-09-14 18:42 ` Greg KH
2004-09-14 19:21 ` Chris Meadors
2004-09-14 19:40 ` Chris Friesen
2004-09-14 19:52 ` Greg KH
2004-09-14 20:00 ` Chris Friesen
2004-09-14 20:43 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2004-09-14 21:35 ` Greg KH
2004-09-14 21:45 ` Marco d'Itri
2004-09-14 21:51 ` Greg KH
2004-09-14 22:47 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-14 23:04 ` Greg KH
2004-09-14 23:20 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-14 23:34 ` Gianni Tedesco
2004-09-14 23:58 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-15 16:15 ` Greg KH
2004-09-15 19:21 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-15 22:09 ` Chris Friesen
2004-09-15 22:15 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-15 22:25 ` Greg KH
2004-09-15 22:23 ` Greg KH
2004-09-15 22:46 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-15 13:55 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2004-09-15 14:36 ` Ian Campbell
2004-09-15 15:20 ` Tonnerre
2004-09-15 15:45 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2004-09-15 16:12 ` Greg KH
2004-09-15 16:51 ` Marc Ballarin
2004-09-15 18:00 ` Greg KH
2004-09-19 16:51 ` Jon Masters
2004-09-19 18:53 ` Andreas Jellinghaus
2004-09-20 2:16 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2004-09-17 8:06 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2004-09-15 16:11 ` Greg KH
2004-09-15 16:09 ` Greg KH
2004-09-17 7:48 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2004-09-14 22:03 ` Marc Ballarin
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