Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Nov 2004 18:48:17 -0500 | From | Dmitry Torokhov <> | Subject | Re: [ACPI] Re: 2.6.10-rc1-mm3: ACPI problem due to un-exported hotplug_path |
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On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 14:55:02 -0800, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 09:18:48PM -0800, Keshavamurthy Anil S wrote: > > Also, since you have brought this, I have one another question to you. > > Now in the new kernel, I see whenever anybody calls sysdev_register(kobj), > > an "ADD" notification is sent. why is this? I would like to call > > kobject_hotplug(kobj, ADD) later. > > This happens when kobject_add() is called. You shouldn't ever need to > call kobject_hotplug() for an add event yourself. >
This is not always the case. One might want to postpone ADD event until all summpelental object attributes are created. This way userspace is presented with object in consistent state.
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