Plans for hal 0.5.x

[David Zeuthen]

On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 18:03 +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > Ah, so, in other words, you guarantee that all hotplug.d notifiers
> > for /block/sda are done before you invoke the hotplug.d notifiers
> > for /block/sda/sda1?
> 
> Yes, exactly. All childs will wait for the parent udev process to exit
> (exit == handled all notifiers). The whole event sequence is serialized
> by the DEVPATH (including the PHYSDEVPATH device).
> 

Awesome, great work Kay! I will change the hal coldplug code to do
exactly the same.

> > > So you may get /block/sdb before you get /block/sda Do you think that's
> > > a problem and we need to reorder that?
> > > 
> > 
> > No, that would be just fine. In fact it would be perfect - what I want
> > to do is actually handle sdb* in parallel to sda* in hald (which is
> > possible as the major work will be invoking volume_id processes). How
> > does that sound?
> 
> That's what I wanted to hear :).
> 

Excellent, we're getting there.

Cheers,
David


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