Re: [PATCH 2.6][resend] Add DEVPATH env variable to hotplug helper call

[Keshavamurthy Anil S]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 10:18:23AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Keshavamurthy Anil S <anil.s.keshavamurthy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > 	Here is what I have come up with(please take a look at this patch).
> >  I was successfully able to get rid of cpu_run_sbin_hotplug() function, but
> >  when I call kobject_hotplug() function, it is finding 
> >  top_kobj->kset->hotplug_ops set to NULL and hence returns without calling
> >  call_usermodehelper(). Not sure if this is a bug in kobject_hotplug(), 
> >  I feel kobject_hotplug() function should continue even if 
> >  top_kobj->kset-hotplug_ops is NULL.
> 
> Yes, it doesn't seem necessary.  We could give cpu_sysdev_class a
> valid-but-empty hotplug_ops but it seems simpler and more general to do it
> in kobject_hotplug().

I tried that, but I found that parent "cpu" directory i.e
/sys/devices/system/cpu itself was not getting created. Any clues?

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