Re: udev-059 and default.hotplug script

[md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri)]

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On Jul 03, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:

> But we need to walk through /sys/devices to catch devices there
> for modules-load, ..., right? That is not handled by udevstart
> currently.
udevstart should walk /sys/bus/*/devices/ to support $MODALIAS (look at
my modalias.rc).

> On event replay you fire ~800 processes in a few seconds, while most of
> these events are simple devices without any further processing. Tests showed
> and my coworkers needed to convince me that doing this in-process is much
> faster and you save some seconds bootup-time. (using udevstart does not have
> this problem, cause it already does everything with only one process)
Why not move the whole udev in udevd then, and make it fork and continue
processing only when needed?

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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