From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269079AbUJQIU7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Oct 2004 04:20:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269080AbUJQIU7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Oct 2004 04:20:59 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:1769 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269079AbUJQIU5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Oct 2004 04:20:57 -0400 Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 10:20:56 +0200 From: Olaf Hering To: Andrew Cc: greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel-2.6.9.rc4 lib/kobject.c Message-ID: <20041017082056.GA30109@suse.de> References: <4171EB60.50800@speakeasy.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4171EB60.50800@speakeasy.net> X-DOS: I got your 640K Real Mode Right Here Buddy! X-Homeland-Security: You are not supposed to read this line! You are a terrorist! User-Agent: Mutt und vi sind doch schneller als Notes (und GroupWise) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Oct 16, Andrew wrote: > Some user space programs (rightly or wrongly) are expecting there would > be no "gaps" in hotplug event sequence numbers, and hang waiting for the > "missing" events. Every code that relies on the value of $SEQNUM is just broken. The only valid check is < or > -- USB is for mice, FireWire is for men! sUse lINUX ag, nÜRNBERG