Re: [2.6 patch] ISDN_CAPI_CAPIFS related cleanups

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi Calle,

> I have no problems, when capifs is removed, but the pppdcapiplugin
> has to work without it.
> So if you want to remove capifs make sure pppdcapiplugin is
> working without problems together with udev ...
> 
> I'm too busy to check pppdcapiplugin together with udev ....

I posted this patch some time ago (actually April 2004) which made pppd
wait for the device node to be created before failing. I used it since
then and it still works fine for me.

Regards

Marcel

Index: capiplugin.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /i4ldev/isdn4k-utils/pppdcapiplugin/capiplugin.c,v
retrieving revision 1.33
diff -u -r1.33 capiplugin.c
--- capiplugin.c	16 Jan 2004 15:27:13 -0000	1.33
+++ capiplugin.c	12 Apr 2004 13:20:50 -0000
@@ -1413,6 +1413,11 @@
 	   fatal("capiplugin: failed to get tty devname - %s (%d)",
 			strerror(serrno), serrno);
 	}
+	retry = 0;
+	while (access(tty, 0) != 0 && (retry++ < 4)) {
+	   dbglog("capiplugin: capitty not available, waiting for device ...");
+	   sleep(1);
+	}
 	if (access(tty, 0) != 0 && errno == ENOENT) {
 	      fatal("capiplugin: tty %s doesn't exist - CAPI Filesystem Support not enabled in kernel or not mounted ?", tty);
 	}