uevent order fix

[Dave Jones]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 03:22:10PM -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
 > On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 14:59 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
 > > On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 09:24:09AM -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
 > > 
 > >  > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2c7afd125cc482dbdf6b0a169c42337e7e76cda5
 > >  > 
 > >  > Can we include this simple patch in Fedora 7 and Rawhide please? Without
 > >  > this, events arrive in the wrong order meaning that udev and hal may get
 > >  > confused. Thanks.
 > > 
 > > Are you sure this is the diff you want?  The changelog comment doesn't
 > > really imply anything regarding ordering.
 > 
 > Yea, I'm 100% positive - the problem is that uevents for "struct
 > class_device" don't include the PHYSDEV* variables. This makes it
 > impossible for udev to reorder the events, e.g. wait for the device that
 > PHYSDEVPATH that the class device specifies. As a result you sometimes
 > get to process the event for an input device *before* the physical
 > device (e.g. USB interface) have been processed. SCSI generic devices
 > are affected in a similar way.

ok, kernel-2_6_21-1_3222_fc8 is building which should have it tomorrow.
I've no objection to including it (as long as it doesn't have additional
dependancies).  Chuck? anyone else?

	Dave

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