Hi Jesse, I saw Matthew's comment, and he is correct about the revision field being populated. I am regenerating and testing the updated patch now, and will get it to you in about 15-20 minutes. Thanks again. -Ben On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 10:49 -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote: > On Wednesday, July 02, 2008 10:11 am Benjamin Li wrote: > > Hi Ben, > > > > Currently what we are seeing on older RHEL 4 and 5 machine is that udev > > is looking through the entire '/sys/bus/pci/devices/...' directory and > > reading the vpd contents. When this happens our devices are hung before > > any user gets a chance to log in. Therefore, we need to prevent this > > from happening at boot time. Changing the permissions to root didn't > > solve our problem because we are running udev with root permissions. > > > > Thanks again. > > Yeah I remember dealing with something similar when we added the sysfs rom > file. Why HAL opens & reads every sysfs file boggles the mind, but old > versions do... > > I'll queue up the fix and send another pull request to Linus today; did you > see Matthew's comment about the cached revision field? > > Thanks, > Jesse > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
