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2.6.29.1 to 2.6.30rc1 upgrade breaks my hotplug (and how I fixed it)

DISCUSSION Edwin van den Oetelaar (via gmail.com) 1 participant 1 message Apr 8, 2009

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Someone changed
/lib/kobject_uevent.c

To do stuff more parallel,

@@ -248,7 +258,7 @@
goto exit;

retval = call_usermodehelper(argv[0], argv,
- env->envp, UMH_WAIT_EXEC);

+                                            env->envp, UMH_NO_WAIT);
       }

This breaks my hotplug, it only gets called once about every 500 events. Changing UMH_NO_WAIT back to UMH_WAIT_EXEC again fixed my hotplug problems.

I used i686 kernel with /sbin/mdev handler (busybox system) gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)

Best regards,
Edwin van den Oetelaar (Netherlands)