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