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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add TIMEOUT to firmware_class hotplug event
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 21:46:02 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050317054602.GA14459@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050317023431.GA27777@vrfy.org>

On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 03:34:31AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 09:25 +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> > The current implementation of the firmware class breaks a fundamental
> > assumption in udevd: that the physical device can be initialised fully
> > prior to executing the next event for that device.
> 
> Here we add a TIMEOUT value to the hotplug environment of the firmware
> requesting event. I will adapt udevd not to wait for anything else, if
> it finds a TIMEOUT key.

Can't you just trigger off of the FIRMWARE variable instead?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-17  5:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-17  2:34 [PATCH] add TIMEOUT to firmware_class hotplug event Kay Sievers
2005-03-17  5:46 ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-03-17 11:07   ` Kay Sievers
2005-03-17 22:55     ` Greg KH
2005-03-17 23:56 ` Greg KH

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