bug in hotplug sequence handling

[David Zeuthen]

On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 22:35 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 16:17 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 22:14 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > > I have a funny bug in HAL's hotplug sequence handling. The kernel is
> > > currently at SEQUNUM=353. But every second it get the following in syslog.
> > > While writing this (without any device change) it's at 893 :)
> > > 
> > 
> > Can you reproduce this?
> 
> Not really, but I got it several times today.
> 

Damn, that's a bug

> > > And idea?
> > > 
> > 
> > Yeah, does the attached patch helps? If yes, I'm going to commit it!
> 
> Huh, fast response.
> In one out of the 100 tries with the patch I got this for you :)
>   Oct 22 22:30:25 localhost hald[19298]: Timed out waiting for hotplug event 493. Rebasing to 493
> 
> Looks good!
> 

Not really! The thing is that we should rebase to a higher sequence
number; this is what I get

Oct 22 11:52:01 davidz hald[25108]: Timed out waiting for hotplug event
464. Rebasing to 465

Hmm.. I won't have time to look at this before tomorrow, sorry. 

David


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