From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 06:56:11 +0000 Subject: Re: cleaning up udev nodes after crash Message-Id: <20040103065611.GA6010@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <20040103060624.46377.qmail@web14909.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040103060624.46377.qmail@web14909.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id78&alloc_id371&op=click _______________________________________________ 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