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Revert "main: Add artificial delay before starting daemon"

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This reverts commit 5468452f7a as
the problem was root-caused and fixed in the upstream kernel.

Please see README for the fix' details.

Closes: #116
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Bastien Nocera
2017-08-11 19:41:19 +02:00
parent 02dfc189c0
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@@ -89,16 +89,14 @@ If your device does not contain a compass, you can run tests with:
Known problems Known problems
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Every Linux kernel from 4.3 up to the latest versions (4.12-rc3 at the time of writing) have a bug that Every Linux kernel from 4.3 up to version 4.12 had a bug that made
make iio-sensor-proxy fail to see any events coming from sensors until the sensor is unplugged and replugged made iio-sensor-proxy fail to see any events coming from sensors until the
or suspended and resumed. sensor was power-cycled (unplugged and replugged, or suspended and resumed).
A work-around for this problem was added in [this commit](https://github.com/hadess/iio-sensor-proxy/commit/5468452f7a72566d2e6ddc44f9396d3d088fa9fb) The bug was finally fixed in [this commit](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jic23/iio.git/commit/?h=fixes-togreg&id=eafad73ed3851707fa6e3124a255fc049ff9545d)
to minimise the impact of this kernel bug. The bug has been reported but still not root-caused. It's in the upstream kernel and backported to stable releases. If you experience
a race condition and hard to "not reproduce" with certainty, meaning a number of possible of unaffected unresponsive sensors, ask your distributor to make sure this patch was
kernels work because of different timings. applied to the version you're using.
See also [this linux-iio thread](https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-iio/msg29983.html).
References References
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@@ -795,8 +795,6 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv)
SensorData *data; SensorData *data;
int ret = 0; int ret = 0;
g_usleep (G_USEC_PER_SEC * 3);
data = g_new0 (SensorData, 1); data = g_new0 (SensorData, 1);
data->previous_orientation = ORIENTATION_UNDEFINED; data->previous_orientation = ORIENTATION_UNDEFINED;
data->uses_lux = TRUE; data->uses_lux = TRUE;