From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de>
Cc: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Greg Kroah-Hartmann <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: asynchronous calls an the lack of --wait-for-completion options (e.g. modprobe, losetup, cryptsetup)
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:35:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ac3eb2510906230435r6489ddafqb15214f190d4eae8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A3F7440.3030603@ahsoftware.de>
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 14:08, Alexander Holler<holler@ahsoftware.de> wrote:
> On 20.06.2009 21:20, Kay Sievers wrote:
> Anyway, I still think, that the creation of the device-node is (seen from a
> user-point) part of the module-initialization or part of the operation of
> the userland-tool (like modprobe, losetup or cryptsetup). So in my point of
> view, they should at least offer an option to wait until udev finished that
> operation and should not rely on the user to call udevadm.
That would be all solved properly by "devtmpfs":
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/4/30/182
You might want to talk to the people who are delaying its adoption.
Thanks,
Kay
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-23 11:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-17 13:39 Alexander Holler
2009-06-19 0:52 ` Robert Hancock
2009-06-20 19:20 ` Kay Sievers
2009-06-22 12:08 ` Alexander Holler
2009-06-23 11:35 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2009-06-23 16:01 ` Alan Cox
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