Re: udev-059 and default.hotplug script

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 09:37:40PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> 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.

Much better, thanks.  I've released 060 with this fix (for the gentoo
rules) in it.

Sorry for my shoddy testing on the 059 gentoo release, that was my
fault.

thanks,

greg k-h


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