On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 10:11:13AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > On Fri, 23 Dec 2005, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 04:22:44PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > > > 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. > > > > On modern distros, /sbin/hotplug is set to NULL, so this isn't an issue. > > We use netlink to send the data out, so this might not even be a problem > > anymore... > > Indeed it might not. On my older FC3 system I end up with unwanted > processes, but under FC4 that doesn't happen. (Note however that even on > the FC4 system, /sbin/hotplug is not empty and /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug > does point to /sbin/hotplug.) I said "modern" :) Rawhide should have this set to NULL, as well as SuSE, Gentoo unstable and Debian unstable. thanks, greg k-h
