common.c:get_parent_sysfs_path() does not get the parent device

[David Zeuthen]

On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 05:03 +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> Hey David,
> hald is unable to recognize all scsi bus devices of my usb stick.
> A whole chain of parent object lookup fails for:
>   devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb3/3-1/3-1:1.0/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0
> 
> cause:
>   devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb3/3-1/3-1:1.0/host1/target1:0:0
> 
> is not a device we get an event for and therefore can't be found as a
> parent in the store.

<snip>

> I'm not sure if we really can assume that every directory in sysfs
> is a device we got an earlier event for?
> 

Obviously not. From the discussion on linux-scsi it looks that change is
here to stay.

> Any ideas?
> 

Yah, I fixed this - your patch didn't handle the coldplug case but we
also handle that now. I've committed this to the hal 0.4.x stable
branch. Check it out!

Cheers,
David


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