Re: [PATCH] kobject hotplug: don't let SEQNUM overwrite other vars

[Roland Dreier]

    Greg> No, this puts back the problem where if the hotplug()
    Greg> subsystem call fails, we have already incremented the seqnum
    Greg> without emitting a call with that number.

    Greg> Now I know userspace needs to handle this properly anyway,
    Greg> but we might as well get the kernel right, and not do stuff
    Greg> to make userspace unhappy if we can obviously help it.

Got it... I had remembered you saying gaps in the sequence numbers
were OK in the past.

 - R.
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