Re: [PATCH 0/6] kobject/hotplug split

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Mar 23 2005 - 18:32:41 EST


On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 05:00:00AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> This splits the implicit generation of hotplug events from
> kobject_add() and kobject_del(), to give the driver core
> control over the time the event is created.
>
> The kobject_register() and unregister functions still have the same
> behavior and emit the events by themselves.
>
> The class, block and device core is changed now to emit the hotplug
> event _after_ the "dev" file, the "device" symlink and the default
> attributes are created. This will save udev from spinning in a stat() loop
> to wait for the files to appear, which is expensive if we have a lot of
> concurrent events.

Thanks for splitting this up. I've applied all 6 to my trees now.

greg k-h
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