Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 08:52:00 -0800
From: Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>
To: "Mukker, Atul" <Atulm@lsil.com>
Cc: "'James Bottomley'" <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
       Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How to add/drop SCSI drives from within the driver?
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Atul -

On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 11:27:36AM -0500, Mukker, Atul wrote:
> After writing the "- - -" to the scan attribute, the management applications
> assume the udev has created the relevant entries in the /dev directly and
> try to use the devices _immediately_ and fail to see the devices
> 
> Is there a hotplug event which would tell the management applications that
> the device nodes have actually been created now and ready to be used?

Read the udev man page section, the part right before "FILES". Try
putting a script under /etc/dev.d/default/*.dev. Then you can get more
specific with an /etc/dev.d/scsi/*.dev script or something else.

I just tried something simple but did not get it working.

Try linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net list for help.

-- Patrick Mansfield
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