On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Harald Hoyer <harald@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We have a customer, who misses some symlinks for some of his scsi devices. > Because of limited access and debugging facilities, I could only guess a > fix. > > The first patch retries opening the scsi device, if it is EBUSY. > The second patch serializes access with flock. > > With these patches it seems to work. I don't know if the flock patch is > really necessary. Any help and comments appreciated. > - fd = open(devname, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK); > + while (((fd = open(devname, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK)) != 0) && (cnt > What is open() != 0 doing? I guess you want < 0? > + strncpy(flock_path, "/sys/", MAX_PATH_LEN-1); > + strncat(flock_path, devpath, MAX_PATH_LEN-1); Current scsi_id has no idea about sysfs anymore. I guess, we should try if the retry patch is enough. Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
