From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 16:09:05 +0000 Subject: Re: temporarily disabling udev Message-Id: <1103472545.5746.163.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: References: <20041219145616.GA8975@wonderland.linux.it> In-Reply-To: <20041219145616.GA8975@wonderland.linux.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 16:43 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Dec 19, Kay Sievers 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. > Do you have other suggestions? No, not really. I just see problems with the patch in the upstream version, cause of the numerous setups udev is used. > > udev is used in initrd with /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug set > > to /sbin/udev in some setups, which will not work with this patch. > Why they do not run udevstart? They want to use the device nodes after module load. At the time udevstart would run, there may not all modules be loaded. Kay ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel