Re: [PATCH] add TIMEOUT to firmware_class hotplug event

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 03:34:31AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 09:25 +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> > The current implementation of the firmware class breaks a fundamental
> > assumption in udevd: that the physical device can be initialised fully
> > prior to executing the next event for that device.
> 
> Here we add a TIMEOUT value to the hotplug environment of the firmware
> requesting event. I will adapt udevd not to wait for anything else, if
> it finds a TIMEOUT key.

Can't you just trigger off of the FIRMWARE variable instead?

thanks,

greg k-h
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