Miod Vallat <miod@online.fr> wrote:

> > hotplug creates events when devices match.  This is before the attach
> > functions have completed.  If hotplug tries to play with a device, and the
> > attach routine encounters extended sleeps, the hotplug action will not
> > succeed.
> 
> Are you sure about that? Looking at subr_autoconf.c,
> hotplug_device_attach() only gets invoked after the device attach
> routine has returned.

Then maybe it is deferred actions that screw things up.

We've heard numerous cases of hotplug not behaving like people expect.