Re: udev 070 not create dvb device

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

On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 06:32:54PM +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> I wrote:
> 
> >5) (BUG) make sure that /dev/hda1 is created before a bootscript attempts 
> >to check the filesystem. There is some file in sysfs (forgot its name and 
> >this mail writing from 2.4 so can't check) that holds the sequence number 
> >of the last hotplug event. Maybe this file should be polled and the boot 
> >process should continue only if there were no changes in 5 seconds.
> > 
> >
> 5a) The file is /sys/kernel/hotplug_seqnum
> 5b) Polling it doesn't really help because it only tells when the kernel 
> gave the hotplug event to udev, but not when udev finished processing 
> this event.

You may try something stupid like this:

  while [ $(cat /proc/*/status 2> /dev/null | grep -c -E '^Name:.udevd?$') -gt 1 ]; do
      sleep 0.1
  done

Good luck,
Kay


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