On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 17:11 -0500, Mukker, Atul wrote: > All right! The implementation is complete for this and the driver has > thoroughly gone through testing. Everything looks good except for a minor > glitch.
That's good news. > After the new logical drives are created with "- - -" written to the > scsi_host scan attribute, there is a highly noticeable delay before device > names (e.g., sda) appears in the /dev directory. If the management > application tried to access the device immediately after creating new, the > access fails. Putting a 1 second delay helped, but of course this is not a > deterministic solution. > > What are the other possibilities? Well, how about hotplug. The device addition actually triggers a hot plug event already (there's no need to add anything, it's done by the mid-layer), so if you just listen for that, you'll know when the scan has detected a device. James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
