From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 00:09:08 +0000 Subject: Re: Cold plug starting services too soon Message-Id: <20060120000908.GC29106@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <20060117203244.GA3135@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20060117203244.GA3135@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 _______________________________________________ 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