Re: [PATCH] optical_gen

[Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>]

On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 18:52 +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> VMiklos wrote:
> > 2006/8/15, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>:
> >   
> >> I need to support that, when it's in there. So I'm not willing to put
> >> something in, that isn't already used and has shown that it works for a
> >> lot of people.
> >
> > as far as i see, the Debian scripts are okay for most
> >
> >> Again, it should be commonly used, or at least a common agreement that
> >> it will replace the current distro specific versions, before we ship it.    
> >
> > so what about including the Debian ones so that every distro could
> > drop their own (same) implementations?
> >   
> Debian scripts make a very specific expectation of the bootscript: 
> namely, they expect that the udev-mtab bootscript moves the generated 
> rules from the temporary location in /dev/shm to the final one in 
> /etc/udev/rules.d. Some other systems work in a different way: they fail 
> the entire uevent if /etc is mounted read-only in hope that a script 
> will retrigger it later.

>  * Either the Debian script should be included as-is and its expectation 
> about copying rules in the udev-mtab script has to be documented
>  * Or the Debian script has to be made configurable in order to adapt to 
> the two above-mentioned configurations (i.e., "copy rules" vs "retrigger 
> uevents").

Marco, how does Debian handle the other issues when it never triggers
failed events again? Like /usr or other part of the filesystem, or
whatever service not available at that time of the bootup?

The generic 'retrigger' to create the rules later, when /etc is writable
sounds much easier than having a special boot script logic for that
special case.

In an initramfs boot, which is the standard distro setup today, /etc is
writable at that point anyway, and we don't have that problem, right?

Kay


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