Re: udev 070 not create dvb device

[Matthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org>]

Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:

> LFS udev/hotplug setup is horribly broken wrt running handlers for 
> firmware/module loading for at least three weeks since my report:
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/lfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org/msg03236.html
> 
> I seriously recommend forgetting the distro that doesn't fix its current 
> known bugs with known fix but instead plans (without much understanding 
> of the underlying mechanisms) to remove the hotplug package.

Alexander, I'd prefer you refrain from berating the LFS project on a 
non-LFS list (obviously I'd rather you don't berate the project at all, 
but at least if you're going to do it, do it where the LFS community can 
be reasonably expected to see and comment on it).

Secondly, as with any open source project, it's a *voluntary* effort. 
I've already made some efforts to outline the general direction I want 
to see LFS head with regards to device and module handling.  The fact 
that I don't understand all (perhaps any?) of how this stuff works is 
completely excusable - the current documentation for hotplugless setup 
is non-existent as far as I can tell.  It relies on searching mailing 
list archives and such like, and doing so is fraught with the 
difficulties of stumbling across out of date or otherwise inaccurate 
information.

However, as you obviously have all the requisite knowledge about this, 
how about *you* document it, submit that as a patch to the udev project, 
then LFS (and other distros too) can act based on the information it 
provides?  If the documentation could provide examples of both an initrd 
and initrd-less configuration (if that is in fact possible, bugs 
notwithstanding), that'd be great.

Regards,

Matt.


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