Re: Cold plug starting services too soon

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 06:35:53PM +0000, Roy Marples wrote:
> On Thursday 19 January 2006 18:19, Greg KH wrote:
> > No, I mean the ramfs/tmpfs that udev uses to hold it's /dev tree and
> > database.  I can provide a function that the rc scripts can call to see
> > if udev is still initializing or not to keep them from having to worry
> > about the actual mechanics.
> 
> So I could touch /dev/.rcsysinit and remove that after sysinit completes?
> That works for me :)

Yup.

> > And yes, ramfs is always compiled into the kernel these days.
> 
> Really?
> I see CONFIG_RAMFS=y and CONFIG_TMPFS=y in my 2.6.15 kernel config so I was 
> under the impression that they're optional.

Hm, I thought that the build system always forced ramfs on, due to boot
issues, but in looking at the Kconfig system, I can't see that
dependancy anymore.  So you are right.

But udev on Gentoo will not work without that, so we don't really need
to worry about this :)

thanks,

greg k-h


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