Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 18 Dec 2005 17:59:38 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: net: swich device attribute creation to default attrs | From | "David S. Miller" <> |
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From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 01:42:56 +0100
> Recent udev versions don't longer cover bad sysfs timing with built-in > logic. Explicit rules are required to do that. For net devices, the > following is needed: > ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="net", WAIT_FOR_SYSFS="address" > to handle access to net device properties from an event handler without > races. > > This patch changes the main net attributes to be created by the driver > core, which is done _before_ the event is sent out and will not require > the stat() loop of the WAIT_FOR_SYSFS key.
Kay/Greg, this looks fine, feel free to merge it in. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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