Re: [PATCH] use uevents in udevd

[Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>]

Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Jan 14, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> wrote:
> 
> 
>>- check /proc/config.gz for CONFIG_KOBJECT_UEVENT
>>  (if /proc/config.gz is available)
> 
> Not acceptable for a distribution script.
> 
> 
Yeah, I know.

>>- use a program to check for it (like the attached one).
> 
> It's yet another binary to install in the initrd etc... What about
> integrating it in udevd? It could exit with a specific error value if
> uevents are not available, and most of the code is already there.
> 
Well, the main point of the udevd patch is that it's backwards 
compatible. So it'll start regardless whether uevent sockets are 
available or not.
And it's not a clever idea to use udevsend for this task, either, as we 
will have to use it to feed manual events to udevd.
So just exiting udevsend with an error code if uevent sockets are 
available it IMHO not possible.

But I might be convinced otherwise.

And yes, I also don't like the 'yet another binary' idea.

Cheers,

Hannes
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