mdev race conditions

[Bernard Blackham]

On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 10:41:38AM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> Try attached 2.patch. It adds mdev options -f SEQFILE and -t TIMEOUT_MSEC.
> If -f is not given, the behavious is unchanged.

Thanks, but this is not helpful as you can't get
hotplug/uevent_helper to pass arguments to mdev.

> After mdev is done, and if both -f was given and $SEQNUM is set,
> mdev will write $SEQNUM + 1 to SEQFILE prior to exit.

Bear in mind too that seqnum is a u64.

As outlined in the email I just sent to Mike, I'll try and do up an
mdevd tonight which does it cleanly.

Cheers,

Bernard.