From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 17:45:55 +0000 Subject: Re: Udev incompatibility with qemu and bochs Message-Id: <20051019174555.GA3850@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <43560651.9090802@ums.usu.ru> In-Reply-To: <43560651.9090802@ums.usu.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 02:39:45PM +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > UDEV_ALARM_TIMEOUT is defined to 120 seconds in udev.h. The problem is > that it does take 2 minutes to populate /dev inside slow emulators like > qemu or bochs, especially when the emulated and host CPU types differ > and udev rules include RUN+=/sbin/udev_run_hotplugd. The reason is that > inside those emulators exec() is very expensive (involves > jit-compilation from one sort of machine code to another). Please > provide an option to disable this alarm. The preferred form would be an > environment variable, so that I can type "linux UDEV_NO_ALARM=1" at the > boot prompt inside the emulator and see the system booting normally. Feel free to provide such a patch, if you need it. thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ 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