From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
To: "Kay Sievers" <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: "Javier Pello" <javier.pello@urjc.es>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Greg KH" <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] request_firmware: skip timeout if userspace was not notified
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 14:48:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070807144850.289636a0@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3ae72650708070531q696625ddo6e7f582693c8267@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 14:31:34 +0200,
"Kay Sievers" <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> The broadcast returns a failure when nobody received the message?
To my understanding, netlink_broadcast() returns 0 if the message was
delivered to someone, -ENOBUFS in case of failure and -ESRCH if nobody
listened.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-07 12:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-03 19:07 Javier Pello
2007-08-04 5:21 ` david
2007-08-04 8:50 ` Javier Pello
2007-08-04 17:09 ` david
2007-08-04 21:20 ` Javier Pello
2007-08-06 12:24 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-08-06 20:23 ` Javier Pello
[not found] ` <20070807125844.4d756b04@gondo lin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
2007-08-07 10:58 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-08-07 11:46 ` Kay Sievers
2007-08-07 12:10 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-08-07 12:31 ` Kay Sievers
2007-08-07 12:48 ` Cornelia Huck [this message]
2007-08-07 12:47 ` Javier Pello
2007-08-07 12:57 ` Kay Sievers
2007-08-07 13:15 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-08-07 13:59 ` Javier Pello
2007-08-07 14:08 ` Kay Sievers
2007-08-07 14:38 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-08-09 9:13 ` Javier Pello
2007-08-09 9:21 ` Kay Sievers
2007-08-09 9:26 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-08-07 14:26 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-08-09 9:36 ` Javier Pello
2007-08-09 11:58 ` Kay Sievers
2007-08-10 21:24 ` Javier Pello
2007-08-11 13:26 ` Kay Sievers
2007-08-07 20:05 ` Andrew Morton
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