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From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: temporarily disabling udev
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 15:32:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1103470340.5746.142.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041219145616.GA8975@wonderland.linux.it>

On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 15:56 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> I need to patch udev to be sure that it will not modify /dev if
> udevstart has been not been run (e.g. because root disabled the
> init script, or it failed for some reason).
> Would this work?

Removing the database, should not prevent the next udev run to create
one. udev is used in initrd with /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug set
to /sbin/udev in some setups, which will not work with this patch.

How does Debian disable udev? Can't you use this value instead?

Kay



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  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-19 15:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-19 14:56 temporarily disabling udev Marco d'Itri
2004-12-19 15:32 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2004-12-19 15:43 ` Marco d'Itri
2004-12-19 16:09 ` Kay Sievers
2004-12-19 16:58 ` Marco d'Itri

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