From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756174Ab3AWALt (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:11:49 -0500 Received: from hydra.sisk.pl ([212.160.235.94]:50915 "EHLO hydra.sisk.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752939Ab3AWALr (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:11:47 -0500 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: ACPI Devel Maling List , LKML , "Kristen C. Accardi" , Len Brown Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] ACPI / PM: Expose lists of device power resources to user space Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 01:17:47 +0100 Message-ID: <4989050.jK98Xm5BOW@vostro.rjw.lan> User-Agent: KMail/4.9.5 (Linux/3.8.0-rc4; KDE/4.9.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <4110339.gOkm8VAsyn@vostro.rjw.lan> References: <3307415.pdOY6ovZLa@vostro.rjw.lan> <20130122235624.GF694@kroah.com> <4110339.gOkm8VAsyn@vostro.rjw.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday, January 23, 2013 01:08:54 AM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 03:56:24 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 03:28:23AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: [...] > > Oh, and same question about racing userspace, you will have problems > > here in that the symlinks will be showing up after the device is > > created. Perhaps, to make the whole thing easier, you just change the > > acpi core code to hold off on the notification until you get all of > > these links and files set up and then tell userspace. That's probably > > an easier fix. > > I suppose so. > > How can I do that? Should I set dev->kobj.uevent_suppress before calling device_register() and then clear it and call the kobject_uevent(&dev->kobj, KOBJ_ADD) from the ACPI core after device_register() has returned and the files have been created? Rafael -- I speak only for myself. Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.