From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cleaning up udev nodes after crash
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 06:56:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040103065611.GA6010@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040103060624.46377.qmail@web14909.mail.yahoo.com>
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 10:06:24PM -0800, Jon Smirl wrote:
> Since I write device drivers I keep killing my box and rebooting (especially
> when I misprogram DMA registers). After a crash all of the device nodes in /udev
> are permamently in /udev. starting/stopping udev won't clean them up. I can
> clean up manually with rm -rf /udev but shouldn't this happen automatically?
The old udev shutdown script used to do this. If you want, you can
change it back.
But as you are crashing your box, and you aren't using a ramfs
filesystem for /udev, it will stick around, sorry.
thanks,
greg k-h
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-03 6:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-03 6:06 cleaning up udev nodes after crash Jon Smirl
2004-01-03 6:15 ` Dave Dodge
2004-01-03 6:27 ` Jon Smirl
2004-01-03 6:56 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-01-03 6:57 ` Greg KH
2004-01-03 7:15 ` Johannes Erdfelt
2004-01-03 22:06 ` Greg KH
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