Re: [PATCH] request_firmware: skip timeout if userspace was not notified

[Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>]

On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 13:46:55 +0200,
"Kay Sievers" <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:

> > - Use an extra parameter in which successful delivery can be indicated.
> > Make this
> > int kobject_uevent_env_check(struct kobject *kobject,
> >                              enum kobject_action action,
> >                              char *envp[], int delivered);
> > so existing callers that don't care don't have to be changed.
> 
> How do you check if events have been "handled"? None of the recent
> distros uses /sbin/hotplug anymore. Netlink events are broadcasted,
> but no failure in delivery doesn't mean anything like "handled", or
> delivered to the right instance. Even if you check that the netlink
> socket has listeners, that wouldn't be sufficient to tell that is is
> handled.

You can't check if it's been handled, yes; but you can certainly check
if you delivered it. I guess Javier wants to exclude the cases where
userspace didn't have any chance to handle it.

Javier: Do you have an idea how common the case "we broadcasted, but
nobody listened so we got a timeout" is? If the usual reason for the
timeout is that firmware was requested before a listener showed up, I'm
not sure whether that check is worth it...