Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Aug 2005 10:57:50 -0500 | Subject | Re: [patch 8/8] PCI Error Recovery: PPC64 core recovery routines | From | Linas Vepstas <> |
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On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 07:43:57AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt was heard to remark: > On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 11:21 -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 10:49:03AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt was heard to remark: > > > > > > Of course, we'll possibly end up with a different ethX or whatever, but > > > > Yep, but that's not an issue, since all the various device-naming > > schemes are supposed to be fixing this. Its a distinct problem; > > it needs to be solved even across cold-boots. > > Ok, so what is the problem then ? Why do we have to wait at all ? Why > not just unplug/replug right away ?
Paranoia + old versions of udev. I beleive that older versions of udev (such as the ones currently shipping with Red Hat RHEL4 and SuSE SLES9) failed to serialize events properly. I beleive that the newer versions do serialize, but have not verified/tested.
--linas
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