Re: udev-067 and 2.6.12?

[David Brown <dmlb2000@gmail.com>]

Okay you can disable syslog or I had to make an extra C file and patch
the makefile to get it to work.

to disable syslog `make USE_LOGúlse`

- David Brown

== begin Makefile.patch =--- Makefile.old	2005-07-23 09:27:02.000000000 -0700
+++ Makefile	2005-07-24 22:52:21.000000000 -0700
@@ -145,7 +145,8 @@
 	udev_db.o			\
 	udev_rules.o			\
 	udev_rules_parse.o		\
-	udev_libc_wrapper.o
+	udev_libc_wrapper.o             \
+	udev_logger.o
 
 OBJS = \
 	udev.a			\
@@ -377,11 +378,6 @@
 	$(INSTALL_PROGRAM) -D $(INFO) $(DESTDIR)$(usrbindir)/$(INFO)
 	$(INSTALL_PROGRAM) -D $(TESTER) $(DESTDIR)$(usrbindir)/$(TESTER)
 	$(INSTALL_PROGRAM) -D $(STARTER) $(DESTDIR)$(sbindir)/$(STARTER)
-ifndef DESTDIR
-	- killall $(DAEMON)
-	- rm -rf $(udevdb)
-	- $(sbindir)/$(DAEMON) --daemon
-endif
 	@extras="$(EXTRAS)" ; for target in $$extras ; do \
 		echo $$target ; \
 		$(MAKE) prefix=$(prefix) LD="$(LD)" SYSFS="$(SYSFS)" \
== end Makefile.patch =
== begin udev_logger.c =#include <syslog.h>
#include <stdarg.h>

extern int udev_log_priority;

#ifdef USE_LOG
void log_message(int priority, const char *format, ...)
{
	va_list args;

	if (priority > udev_log_priority)
		return;

	va_start(args, format);
	vsyslog(priority, format, args);
	va_end(args);
}
#endif
== end udev_logger.c =
On 8/16/05, Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 August 2005 23:49, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> > On Tuesday 16 August 2005 23:33, David Brown wrote:
> > > Check out the release notes for udev 059
> > > I think your problem may be caused by the changes in that release
> > > and you should probably add the code below to your udev rules file
> > > <snip>
> > > RUN+="/sbin/udev_run_devd"
> > > </snip>
> > >
> > > I've noticed this problem as well loading firmware but everything was
> > > fixed when I made the two extra binaries in extras/run_directory and
> > > added the code above to my rules file
> > >
> > > - David Brown
> >
> > (Sorry linux-hotplug-devel, I thought I'd add to CC after Greg's suggestion
> > elsewhere in this thread).
> >
> > Obviously, this fixed it. Thanks a lot for the hint.
> 
> Okay, I've found a few problems with udev 067 so far.
> 
> Greg suggested changing comparisons in the udev rules to = instead of =,
> which makes sense (comparison versus assignment). There are several files in
> the etc/udev directory that don't observe this (frugalware/slackware).
> 
> Secondly, the stuff in run_directory doesn't link:
> 
> # make
> cc -DUSE_LOG -O2 -march=k8 -mfpmath=sse -s -pipe -c -o run_directory.o
> run_directory.c
> ld -s -o udev_run_devd udev_run_devd.o
> run_directory.o ../../udev.a ../../libsysfs/sysfs.a
> ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; defaulting to 00000000004000f0
> udev_run_devd.o: In function `log_message':
> udev_run_devd.c:(.text+0x9d): undefined reference to `vsyslog'
> udev_run_devd.c:(.text+0xb6): undefined reference to `getenv'
> 
> GCC 4.0.1/binutils 2.16.91.0.2. I worked around it by linking with gcc instead
> (like the rest of udev does). This worked fine. I didn't compile udev or the
> run_directory stuff against klibc.
> 
> Finally, I'm sure this is my fault, but modules like "mousedev" and "sd_mod"
> don't get loaded by hotplug/udev when I plug in my mouse or pendrive after
> booting. This is because they are not actually dependencies of the modules
> usbhid and usb-storage, so they don't get loaded by modprobe.
> 
> udev 053 used to do this, 067 doesn't any more. I've got both the
> udev_run_devd and udev_run_hotplugd binaries compiled and in the right place;
> I stole the configuration from the gentoo rules. Any idea what's changed?
> 
> These are my now vastly simplified rules (no other rules files exist):
> http://devzero.co.uk/~alistair/50-desktop.rules
> 
> --
> Cheers,
> Alistair.
> 
> 'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.'
> Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
> 1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
>


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