Re: delay before open() works

Brad Hards (bhards@bigpond.net.au)
Sun, 15 Sep 2002 16:38:32 +1000


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On Sun, 15 Sep 2002 16:10, Greg KH wrote:
> This "second" hotplug event will happen when the driver registers with
> the "class". So for the example of the USB scanner driver, it registers
> itself with the USB "class" to set up the file_ops structure (this is
> done in usb_register_dev(). At that point in time, /sbin/hotplug will
> be called again.
This is too soon, at least for the scanner driver. Look at how much code runs
in scanner_probe() between the fops registration and the devfs registration.

Hmmm, that is probably a race anyway. Oliver?

Brad
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