On Fri, 23 Dec 2005, Pavel Machek wrote: > Well, if you can find some elegant solution in the core, I think thats > the best way. > > You could set system_state to "suspending" or something like that, and > just if() out notifications in that case. How about simply adding a call to try_to_freeze() somewhere inside kernel/kmod.c:____call_usermodehelper()? That ought to do pretty much what I want, in theory. The hotplug processes would get frozen before /sbin/hotplug is exec'ed. I haven't actually tried it yet, so maybe there's a hidden gotcha. Alan Stern
