Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262314AbVAZOtI (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jan 2005 09:49:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262320AbVAZOtI (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jan 2005 09:49:08 -0500 Received: from e2.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.142]:61920 "EHLO e2.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262314AbVAZOs4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jan 2005 09:48:56 -0500 Message-ID: <41F7ADD6.9050608@us.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:48:54 -0600 From: Brian King Reply-To: brking@us.ibm.com User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Mukker, Atul" CC: "'Patrick Mansfield'" , "'James Bottomley'" , "'Linux Kernel'" , "'SCSI Mailing List'" Subject: Re: How to add/drop SCSI drives from within the driver? References: <0E3FA95632D6D047BA649F95DAB60E5705B837C3@exa-atlanta> In-Reply-To: <0E3FA95632D6D047BA649F95DAB60E5705B837C3@exa-atlanta> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2263 Lines: 81 Newer kernels also have kobject_uevent, which lets any application use netlink to look for hotplug events. -Brian Mukker, Atul wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion. After more exploration, looks like different > distribution have different implementations for /sbin/hotplug. This may > aggravate the issue for applications. For now, we will stick with a wait and > watch after bus scan :-( > > Will probe the linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net list for more > pointers > > Thanks > > =========================== > Atul Mukker > Architect, Drivers and BIOS > LSI Logic Corporation > > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Patrick Mansfield [mailto:patmans@us.ibm.com] >>Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 11:52 AM >>To: Mukker, Atul >>Cc: 'James Bottomley'; Linux Kernel; SCSI Mailing List >>Subject: Re: How to add/drop SCSI drives from within the driver? >> >>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 >> > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- Brian King eServer Storage I/O IBM Linux Technology Center - 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/