init.d debian patch

init.d debian patch

[John L. Fjellstad]

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I dualboot between 2.4.x and 2.6.x right now, and although I
want udev to start up when 2.6 is booting, I don't want it to try when
2.4.x is booting.

This is a small patch to not start up udev if sysfs is not
mounted.  

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--- udev.debian.orig	2004-02-13 02:01:37.000000000 +0100
+++ udev.debian	2004-02-16 22:20:19.000000000 +0100
@@ -61,7 +61,8 @@
 	if [ ! -d $udev_dir ]; then
 		mkdir $udev_dir
 	fi
-	if [ ! -d $sysfs_dir ]; then
+	# don't use udev if sysfs is not mounted
+	if [ ! -d $sysfs_dir/block ]; then
 		exit 1
 	fi
 	# propogate /udev from /sys - we only need this while we do not

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Re: init.d debian patch

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 10:23:21PM +0100, John L. Fjellstad wrote:
> I dualboot between 2.4.x and 2.6.x right now, and although I
> want udev to start up when 2.6 is booting, I don't want it to try when
> 2.4.x is booting.
> 
> This is a small patch to not start up udev if sysfs is not
> mounted.  

Thanks, I've also made this change to the red hat init script.

And I've added some other stuff to the red hat one, so you might want to
take a look at it too.

Is there a official udev Debian package yet?  If so, who is the
maintainer of it?

thanks,

greg k-h


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Re: init.d debian patch

[Bryan W. Headley]

Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 10:23:21PM +0100, John L. Fjellstad wrote:
> 
>>I dualboot between 2.4.x and 2.6.x right now, and although I
>>want udev to start up when 2.6 is booting, I don't want it to try when
>>2.4.x is booting.
>>
>>This is a small patch to not start up udev if sysfs is not
>>mounted.  
> 
> 
> Thanks, I've also made this change to the red hat init script.
> 
> And I've added some other stuff to the red hat one, so you might want to
> take a look at it too.
> 
> Is there a official udev Debian package yet?  If so, who is the
> maintainer of it?
>

I see a udev backported to Debian Woody, owned by Marco d'Itri 
<md@linux.it>. Seems to be 0.014.

Also seen udev hanging out in Madrake Cooker & SuSE 9.

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Re: init.d debian patch

[Marco d'Itri]

On Feb 17, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:

 >Is there a official udev Debian package yet?  If so, who is the
 >maintainer of it?
Yes, you know I am the maintainer and the package has been for months
available from http://www.bofh.it/~md/debian/ .
I have not uploaded it yet to the archive because udev keeps changing
and I do not want to support upgrades until it will be more stable.

I also see no point in uploading it until it will manage /dev, and it
has been pointed out by multiple people that this cannot be done until a
solution is found for devices like /dev/console, which are needed at the
beginning of the boot sequence.

Anyway, I'd prefer if you did not ship this init script with udev,
there is no point in doing this and it will always lag behind the
official one.

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Re: init.d debian patch

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 01:53:18PM -0600, Bryan W. Headley wrote:
> I see a udev backported to Debian Woody, owned by Marco d'Itri 
> <md@linux.it>. Seems to be 0.014.

Hm, a bit out of date :(

> Also seen udev hanging out in Madrake Cooker & SuSE 9.

Great, thanks for letting me know.

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Re: init.d debian patch

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 08:55:25PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Feb 17, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> 
>  >Is there a official udev Debian package yet?  If so, who is the
>  >maintainer of it?
> Yes, you know I am the maintainer and the package has been for months
> available from http://www.bofh.it/~md/debian/ .
> I have not uploaded it yet to the archive because udev keeps changing
> and I do not want to support upgrades until it will be more stable.

Hm, you mean Red Hat is shipping something that Debian thinks isn't
stable enough?  Just kidding...

> I also see no point in uploading it until it will manage /dev, and it
> has been pointed out by multiple people that this cannot be done until a
> solution is found for devices like /dev/console, which are needed at the
> beginning of the boot sequence.

I just booted my laptop that runs Fedora and a stock 2.6.3-rc4 kernel
using udev to manage /dev.  Gentoo is also able to do this just fine.
I'll clean up my scripts that I used to do this and post how to do this
with the next release for others who also want to do this.

So it is possible.

> Anyway, I'd prefer if you did not ship this init script with udev,
> there is no point in doing this and it will always lag behind the
> official one.

Well, I'll leave it alone for now, is that ok?

thanks,

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Re: init.d debian patch

[Marco d'Itri]

On Feb 17, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:

 >> I see a udev backported to Debian Woody, owned by Marco d'Itri 
 >> <md@linux.it>. Seems to be 0.014.
 >Hm, a bit out of date :(
Backports are unofficial packages maintained by random people, so far I
have always packaged the latest release in no more than a few days.

Anyway, if the next release will support multiple configuration files
and additional symlink configuration entries I will try uploading it
and see what will happen.

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Re: init.d debian patch

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:28:26PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> 
> Anyway, if the next release will support multiple configuration files
> and additional symlink configuration entries I will try uploading it
> and see what will happen.

I'm waiting for a updated patch for both of those features :)

thanks,

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