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Good morning everybody!

I've a small problem with loading the sata_sil module, but it could be a
general issue: We use this sata-kontroller with sata-harddisks to backup
our systems. The harddisk is exchanged (while the system is running) every
day. So we load/unload sata_sil in our backup scripts, so 'hotplugging' is possible.

My problem is, that modprobe returns earlier than the attached device is usable:

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srwali01:/# modprobe sata_sil; mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/hdbackup/
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
srwali01:/# rmmod sata_sil
srwali01:/# modprobe sata_sil; ls -l /dev/sda1
ls: /dev/sda1: No such file or directory
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So I have to do

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srwali01:/# modprobe sata_sil
srwali01:/# sleep 2
srwali01:/# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/hdbackup
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The problem is most likely that udev is too slow or that modprobe does not
know/wait for udev:

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srwali01:/# mount | grep tmpfs | grep -v /dev/shm
tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,size=10M,mode=0755)
srwali01:/# cat /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug
/sbin/udevsend
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My questions:

- Should modprobe wait for whatever current hotplug is so that
the system can definitly use the device after modprobe?
- Or should there be a command-line switch to modprobe to tell it to wait
for hotplug?
- Is the 'wait for hotplug'-idea possible to do or would it have to be a dirty
hack in the kernel?
- Is there clean solution to wait exactly as long as
it needs to load sata_sil and create /dev/sda*?
Using while+ls monitoring /dev/sda* is not a solution imho.

Greetings,

Nico

P.S.: Sorry for crossposting, I am not really sure which list would have been
the correct one to ask.

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