[systemd-devel] [PATCH] Add handling for bind/unbind actions

Lennart Poettering lennart at poettering.net
Fri Sep 1 07:57:39 UTC 2017


On Do, 31.08.17 18:54, Dmitry Torokhov (dmitry.torokhov at gmail.com) wrote:

> Newer kernels will emit uevents with "bind" and "unbind" actions. These
> uevents will be issued when driver is bound to or unbound from a device.
> "Bind" events are helpful when device requires a firmware to operate
> properly, and driver is unable to create a child device before firmware
> is properly loaded.
> 
> For some reason systemd validates actions and drops the ones it does not
> know, instead of passing them on through as old udev did, so we need to
> explicitly teach it about them.

I created https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/6720 from
this. Let's continue the discussion there.

(FWITW, patch looks good to me)

Lennart

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