From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scott James Remnant Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 19:33:54 +0000 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 089 release Message-Id: <1144265634.8146.3.camel@quest.netsplit.com> MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-+DRhYCFEAk0GCyyp7vCM" List-Id: References: <20060403171123.GA24860@vrfy.org> In-Reply-To: <20060403171123.GA24860@vrfy.org> To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org --=-+DRhYCFEAk0GCyyp7vCM Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 20:51 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 12:25:34AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 19:11 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > >=20 > > > Provide "udevtrigger" program to request events on coldplug. The > > > shell script is much too slow with thousends of devices. > > >=20 > > How does this differ from our "udevplug" ? :) >=20 > It simply triggers events for all devices. And the logic to wait for > the queue to become empty is in a different tool. >=20 > > Would it be worth consolidating both into the same tool? >=20 > If you can convince me why we would want to filter out events on the > event generation side instead of doing that on the event handling side. > I'm not sure about the idea of controlling the module load order or the > other weird things that way, but you may may have good reasons I don't > see at the moment. >=20 The principal reason for us at the moment is in the initramfs; in the main system we just plug everything and let the order be damned. Indeed, wherever we've found a situation where a module load order is necessary (I know of three or four I think at the moment) we've decided that the bug is in the driver for requiring that order. In the initramfs, we exercise a little more caution; making sure that we only probe PCI IDE or SCSI controllers first before we move on to probing for USB buses. The reasoning for this is that we don't want someone's fast USB pen drive beating their SATA or SCSI disk to getting /dev/sda1 This may be unique to Ubuntu where we try to have an initramfs image that can do everything, rather than customising it per-install; but then for us being able to move an installation between machines and have it always boot has been an important goal. Scott --=20 Scott James Remnant scott@ubuntu.com --=-+DRhYCFEAk0GCyyp7vCM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBENBuiSnQiFMl4yK4RAoDLAJ9yiOvyB5/2JoX3T28dhZSZlcFuOgCeINv4 LwI/46JSuQqHnB2qBtowu6g= =MLmx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-+DRhYCFEAk0GCyyp7vCM-- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ 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