Hi James, On Wednesday 11 June 2008, James Bottomley wrote: > On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 21:29 +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: > > James Bottomley wrote: > > > On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 12:15 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > >> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 06:58:05PM +0000, Chris Clayton wrote: > > >>> Jun 11 17:48:13 upstairs udevd-event[1457]: wait_for_sysfs: wait for > > >>> '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:02:0a.2/usb11/11-2/11-2:1. > > >>>0/host4/ioerr_cnt' for 20 mseconds Jun 11 17:48:18 upstairs last > > >>> message repeated 236 times > > >> > > >> This doesn't look good. It looks like a udev rule in your system is > > >> looking for a file that will never show up. That's a short way to a > > >> long delay time :) > > >> > > >> Try commenting out the rule that does this and see if things are > > >> fixed. > > > > > > Actually, there's something seriously wrong here: ioerr_cnt is a > > > property of the device, not of the host (as in it will never appear > > > under .../host4 but under .../host4/targetX:X:X/4:X:X:X/ioerr_cnt). > > > Perhaps an investigation of why udevd-event is looking under host4/ is > > > in order. > > > > So the change which commit b0ed43360fdca227048d88a08290365cb681c1a8 > > "[SCSI] add scsi_host and scsi_target to scsi_bus" introduced is leading > > the udev scripts onto a wrong trail? > > Yes, I think so ... what it does is make us get bus events for the > target as well as the lun, whereas without it we only get them for the > lun. I think something is misparsing the new target event and this is > where the trouble is coming from. > I assume that since we now the source of this problem, you can create it at will. I only mention because if you need me to test a patch, it will have to be before Tuesday, June 17 - I go on holiday (vacation) on that day. Thanks Chris > James -- Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
