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Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 12:12:02 -0400
From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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Subject: Re: Race free attributes in sysfs
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Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 09:27:12AM -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
>>  Greg KH wrote:
>>> And yes, it only starts to look for things when it recieves an event, it
>>> does not "scan" sysfs at all.
>>  Does it "look for" only that one event, or does it "scan" at that point?
> 
> udev will act on that event, and as I mentioned, not read anything from
> sysfs at all, unless a custom rule is in the rules file asking it to
> read a specific sysfs file in the tree.
> 
> So no "scanning" happens unless specificically asked for.
> 
> And as mentioned, udev can work just fine without sysfs enabled at all
> now, with the exception of some custom rules for some devices.
> 
I think what Mark is asking is about the case where udev gets an event, 
is told to look in sysfs, and while looking encounters a partially 
described device.

Now that the "this won't happen unless..." cases, could someone cover 
this and state that it either can't happen because {reason} or that if 
it does the result will be {description}.

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Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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