Re: udev-059 and default.hotplug script

[Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>]

On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 12:06:46PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 08:55:42AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 07:46:48PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 06:28:16PM -0700, Phil K wrote:
> > > > Gentoo here, udev-059 causes the
> > > > /etc/hotplug.d/default/default.hotplug script to
> > > > complain bitterly at boot on all references to the
> > > > /dev/null device.  I am using the hotplug 2004-09-23
> > > > script set.
> > > 
> > > This is a gentoo specific issue, stick with bugs.gentoo.org for now.
> > 
> > Hm, no, this might be a udev specific issue.  I'm also now seeing this,
> > and in fact, can't get 2.6.12 to work at all with the latest udev (059).
> > Will debug more tonight...
> 
> Kay, this seems to be caused by udevstart running the
> /etc/hotplug.d/defalt/default.hotplug link (points to the "load a
> module" hotplug stuff) before we've created anything in /dev.  This is
> because of the udev_run_hotplugd program rule.  But for udevstart, we
> don't want to run any hotplug stuff :(

Sure, that's wrong.

> Hm, any hints on how to fix this loop?

I hope so:
  ENV{UDEVD_EVENT}="1", RUN+="/sbin/udev_run_hotplugd"

should prevent the hotplug stuff run, if it's not from the kernel.

Cheers,
Kay


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