[dm-devel] [PATCH] Fix race-condition when reading sysfs attributes.

[Kay Sievers]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 16:24, Konrad Rzeszutek <konrad at virtualiron.com> wrote:
> This fix re-introduces a wait loop when reading sysfs attributes.
> The reason a wait is necessary is due to the way the kernel
> sends the event.

> There are four uevents sent from the kernel in the creation of
> a SysFS representation of the device. After the last event, the
> SysFs entries for vendor,model, rev are populated. The window
> time between the uevent with /block/sdX sent and the sysfs
> attributes being populated is small.

What kernel version are you using? I thought we fixed all that long ago.

Thanks,
Kay