Re: Linux 2.6.10-rc2 start_udev very slow

[Andrew Walrond <andrew@walrond.org>]

On Thursday 16 Dec 2004 21:11, Greg KH wrote:
>
> Then I don't really know what to recommend.  As the udev startup logic
> is very tightly tied to how the distro is set up, I recommend using
> whatever they do, and ignore what I say :)

They is me; My distro is Rubyx :)

>
> > So I guess I need to migrate this functionality to my init system before
> > I can call udevstart directly.
>
> I'd suggest just leaving it alone.

Where's the fun in that?

>
> > Is that list of  'extra nodes not exported by sysfs likely to change?'
>
> What does that list contain?

make_extra_nodes () {
        # there are a few things that sysfs does not export for us.
        # these things go here (and remember to remove them in
        # remove_extra_nodes()
        #
        # Thanks to Gentoo for the initial list of these.
        ln -snf /proc/self/fd $udev_root/fd
        ln -snf /proc/self/fd/0 $udev_root/stdin
        ln -snf /proc/self/fd/1 $udev_root/stdout
        ln -snf /proc/self/fd/2 $udev_root/stderr
        ln -snf /proc/kcore $udev_root/core

        mkdir $udev_root/pts
        mkdir $udev_root/shm
}

Andrew Walrond