Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 011 release

["J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>]

On 12.25, Greg KH wrote:
> I've released the 011 version of udev.  It can be found at:
>  	kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev-011.tar.gz
> 

udev rc script reads:

# chkconfig: 2345 20 80

If it is supposed to create device nodes on an empty /dev, I think it should
be run at runlevel 1, or even run apart from normal initscripts, from rc or
the like ?
For example, on a Mandrake cooker box, rc2.d looks like


K05portsentry@  K35dhcpd@       K80gmond@                   S12syslog@
K08lircmd@      K35lircd@       K80nscd@                    S15gpm@
K09dm@          K44rawdevices@  K81ganglia-monitor-script@  S18sound@
K09smb@         K45named@       K86nfslock@                 S20random@
K10devfsd@      K50xinetd@      K89portmap@                 S20udev@
K10ntpd@        K54pxe@         K89upsmon@                  S60cups@
K10xfs@         K60atd@         K90upsd@                    S60nfs@
K15proftpd@     K60saslauthd@   K95harddrake@               S75keytable@
K20bootparamd@  K65identd@      S01hotplug@                 S80postfix@
K20partmon@     K70acpi@        S03iptables@                S90crond@
K21bpmaster@    K70alsa@        S05lm_sensors@              S95kheader@
K25sshd@        K75netfs@       S05sensors@                 S95microcode_ctl@
K35atalk@       K80gmetad@      S10network@                 S99local@

This means that it will try to run, for example, gpm before the device for
the mouse is created (as I said, if you booted with an empty /dev you want
to populate with device nodes).

And a couple questions.
a) Should not ordering be reversed here:

  start)
    if [ ! -d $udev_dir ]; then
        mkdir $udev_dir
    fi
    if [ ! -d $sysfs_dir ]; then
        exit 1
    fi
  If we have not /sys, there's no sense on creating /udev, so I would check first
  for /sys.

b) What is the sense of removing devices when udev is stopped ? As I understand
  it, udev is not 'running', it is just a command to create device nodes, called 
  by hotplug. What is more logical, chkconfig --level 12345 or --level 1 ?
  One more reason to split it from normal init scripts. 

TIA

-- 
J.A. Magallon <jamagallon()able!es>     \                 Software is like sex:
werewolf!able!es                         \           It's better when it's free
Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Cooker) for i586
Linux 2.6.0-jam1 (gcc 3.3.2 (Mandrake Linux 10.0 3.3.2-3mdk))


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