Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Jun 2003 17:51:51 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] udev enhancements to use kernel event queue |
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On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 05:42:45PM -0700, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > >But you also have to "hold" events for a bit of time in order to > >determine that things are out of order, or we have a gap. So a bit of > >"complex" logic is in the works, but it's much less complex than if we > >didn't have that sequence number. > > > > OK, so the important point here is that while you probably delay events > for a small amount of time (1-3 seconds maybe) to ensure that you aren't > processing steps out of order, it's not likely that userspace is going > hold event #1321 for an indefinite period of time just because it has > never seen event #1320.
Exactly.
> I can't wait to see this implementation; it's going to be interesting, > to say the least. However, without the sequence numbers, it would very > likely be impossible.
Hey, I still think my originally proposed version would have worked, eventually... :)
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