Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267645AbUIOWRs (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 18:17:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267614AbUIOWPl (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 18:15:41 -0400 Received: from zcars04e.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.56]:10412 "EHLO zcars04e.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267664AbUIOWKM (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 18:10:12 -0400 Message-ID: <4148BD97.1080504@nortelnetworks.com> Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 16:09:27 -0600 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrea Arcangeli CC: Greg KH , "Marco d'Itri" , "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: udev is too slow creating devices References: <41474926.8050808@nortelnetworks.com> <20040914195221.GA21691@kroah.com> <414757FD.5050209@pixelized.ch> <20040914213506.GA22637@kroah.com> <20040914214552.GA13879@wonderland.linux.it> <20040914215122.GA22782@kroah.com> <20040914224731.GF3365@dualathlon.random> <20040914230409.GA23474@kroah.com> <20040914232011.GG3365@dualathlon.random> <20040915161541.GD21971@kroah.com> <20040915192134.GA4197@dualathlon.random> In-Reply-To: <20040915192134.GA4197@dualathlon.random> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 567 Lines: 15 Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > the kernel certainly knows when it's about time to fork an userspace > process to create the device, doesn't it? then just wait4 while the > process is running. Last I checked, if using udevsend the process that gets forked is not the same process that actually creates the device node. Chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/