Re: [PATCH] kernel-2.6.9.rc4 lib/kobject.c

From: Olaf Hering
Date: Sun Oct 17 2004 - 03:26:20 EST


On Sat, Oct 16, Andrew wrote:

> Some user space programs (rightly or wrongly) are expecting there would
> be no "gaps" in hotplug event sequence numbers, and hang waiting for the
> "missing" events.

Every code that relies on the value of $SEQNUM is just broken.
The only valid check is < or >

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