Re: udevsynthesize as a udevstart+coldplug replacement

[Per Svennerbrandt <per.svennerbrandt@lbi.se>]

* Kay Sievers (kay.sievers@vrfy.org) wrote:
> Here is "udevsynthesize" a possible replacement for the udevstart/coldplug
> combination we currently have. Usually very early in the boot process, it
> gets all available devices from sysfs and synthesizes the events these
> devices would have generated at creation time.
> The events are directly passed to the udevd daemom socket. udevd does all the
> work and runs all the events asynchronously. udevsynthesize itself does
> not read any udev rule.
> 
> It scans block and class devices to create the the device nodes for already
> available devices, which obsoletes the run of udevstart.
> After that, it scans for bus devices, which events may load modules or
> configure the device. If the bus type is known, the usual bus-specific
> values are added to the event environment.

Conceptually (Meaning I havn't carefully examined the code yet)
this looks great! Thanks for doing this Kay!

It's nice to see the hotplug+udev combo finally getting in to shape and
becoming more streamlined and lightweight.

Thanks a bunch!

/Pelle


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