From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "J.A. Magallon" Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 02:04:49 +0000 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 011 release Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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 \ 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)) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id78&alloc_id371&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel