From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: dtor_core@ameritech.net
Cc: Keshavamurthy Anil S <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>,
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
tokunaga.keiich@jp.fujitsu.com, motoyuki@soft.fujitsu.com,
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
rml@novell.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
len.brown@intel.com, acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [ACPI] Re: 2.6.10-rc1-mm3: ACPI problem due to un-exported hotplug_path
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 16:08:11 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041110000811.GA8543@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d120d5000411091548584bf8c5@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 06:48:17PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 14:55:02 -0800, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 09:18:48PM -0800, Keshavamurthy Anil S wrote:
> > > Also, since you have brought this, I have one another question to you.
> > > Now in the new kernel, I see whenever anybody calls sysdev_register(kobj),
> > > an "ADD" notification is sent. why is this? I would like to call
> > > kobject_hotplug(kobj, ADD) later.
> >
> > This happens when kobject_add() is called. You shouldn't ever need to
> > call kobject_hotplug() for an add event yourself.
> >
>
> This is not always the case. One might want to postpone ADD event
> until all summpelental object attributes are created. This way userspace
> is presented with object in consistent state.
No, that's a mess. Let userspace wait for those attributes to show up
if they need to. That's what the "wait_for_sysfs" program bundled with
udev is for.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-10 0:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-05 8:13 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Andrew Morton
2004-11-05 9:41 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Lorenzo Allegrucci
2004-11-05 10:17 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Andrew Morton
2004-11-05 10:48 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Andi Kleen
2004-11-05 12:36 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Lorenzo Allegrucci
2004-11-05 10:22 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Ingo Molnar
2004-11-05 10:38 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Andi Kleen
2004-11-05 11:09 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Ingo Molnar
2004-11-05 11:17 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Andi Kleen
2004-11-05 11:24 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Ingo Molnar
2004-11-05 11:43 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Andi Kleen
2004-11-05 12:15 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Ingo Molnar
2004-11-05 12:22 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Andi Kleen
2004-11-05 12:57 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Rafael J. Wysocki
2004-11-05 13:02 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Andi Kleen
2004-11-05 17:47 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Rafael J. Wysocki
2004-11-05 11:20 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Russell King
2004-11-05 11:30 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Andi Kleen
2004-11-05 10:17 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Ingo Molnar
2004-11-05 15:54 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Michael Baehr
2004-11-05 10:56 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Con Kolivas
2004-11-05 16:45 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3: ACPI problem due to un-exported hotplug_path Adrian Bunk
2004-11-05 18:05 ` Greg KH
2004-11-05 20:10 ` Kay Sievers
2004-11-05 20:32 ` Ashok Raj
2004-11-05 20:43 ` Greg KH
2004-11-05 20:45 ` Kay Sievers
2004-11-05 20:42 ` Greg KH
2004-11-06 5:18 ` Keshavamurthy Anil S
2004-11-06 5:50 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2004-11-09 22:55 ` Greg KH
2004-11-09 23:48 ` [ACPI] " Dmitry Torokhov
2004-11-10 0:08 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-11-10 4:15 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2004-11-16 5:54 ` Greg KH
2004-11-05 16:52 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3: drm_ati_pcigart_{init,cleanup} multiple definition Adrian Bunk
2004-11-05 17:19 ` Dave Airlie
2004-11-05 17:33 ` Jon Smirl
2004-11-05 18:07 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Rafael J. Wysocki
2004-11-05 18:48 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3: (fix for make xconfig) Rafael J. Wysocki
2004-11-05 20:26 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-11-08 22:34 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-11-05 18:07 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Adam Heath
2004-11-06 7:16 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Pasi Savolainen
2004-11-06 9:39 ` [PATCH][TRIVIAL] sched.c whitespace mangler Con Kolivas
2004-11-07 1:32 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3: "bttv card=" breakage Adrian Bunk
2004-11-07 2:15 ` Andrew Morton
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