Re: Patch : enhance usb detection

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandrakesoft com>]

Le ven 22/11/2002 à 18:42, Michael Thome a écrit :
> On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 11:59, Frederic Crozat wrote: 
> > The following patches is from Mandrake 9.0 package of gnome-pilot..
> > 
> > It is needed because on our system (which are using hotplug), there is a
> > big time slot between /proc/bus/usb/devices initial modification (ie
> > when hotsync is pressed) and when /proc/bus/usb/devices contains the
> > "Palm handheld" string which is used by gpilotd to detect hotsync has
> > been pressed..
> Any ideas on why this delay is so long?  I've made the same change to
> get things working on my host, but a 10sec sleep is really horrible.

I wish I knew..

I did some tests when we were beta testing Mdk 9.0 and it is probably
caused either by hotplug or devfs (or both..)

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Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandrakesoft com>
MandrakeSoft