From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:50:18 +0000 Subject: Re: Run udev at start of boot Message-Id: <20071101185018.GB26026@kroah.com> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 10:55:10PM +0530, Midhun A wrote: > Hi, > > > > Depends on how your system is booting. IIRC, Ubuntu uses an initramfs > > to boot up, then chains into the real root. Udev is started early on in > > the initramfs init script so it can enumerate the hardware, then is > > killed off just before the chroot to the real root and then init starts > > up the copy in the real root. > > As of now, I am using only a Ramdisk to boot as my board has only > 8MB of flash. Any idea as to how I can start udev in this situation? > Can it be compiled into the kernel so that it starts before the kernel > starts loading the drivers? udev is a userspace program, not something that can be "built into the kernel". udev is the thing that does the loding of the kernel drivers, so of course it runs first :) thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ 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