From: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Klaus Dittrich <kladit@t-online.de>,
linux mailing-list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kobject hotplug: don't let SEQNUM overwrite other vars
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 11:44:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52hdodxt2q.fsf@topspin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041029043807.GA12309@kroah.com> (Greg KH's message of "Thu, 28 Oct 2004 23:38:07 -0500")
Greg> No, this puts back the problem where if the hotplug()
Greg> subsystem call fails, we have already incremented the seqnum
Greg> without emitting a call with that number.
Greg> Now I know userspace needs to handle this properly anyway,
Greg> but we might as well get the kernel right, and not do stuff
Greg> to make userspace unhappy if we can obviously help it.
Got it... I had remembered you saying gaps in the sequence numbers
were OK in the past.
- R.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-30 1:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-27 11:59 usb hotplug $DEVICE empty Klaus Dittrich
2004-10-29 4:24 ` [PATCH] kobject hotplug: don't let SEQNUM overwrite other vars (was Re: usb hotplug $DEVICE empty) Roland Dreier
2004-10-29 4:38 ` Greg KH
2004-10-29 18:44 ` Roland Dreier [this message]
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