From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Miles Lane Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 08:47:40 +0000 Subject: OT(?) -- Should the net.agent script cause "ifup lo" to be run? Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org I am wondering how much of the work that is currently handled by init scripts like /etc/rc.d/init.d/network ought to migrate into the hotplug scripts. If the answer is "almost none," then how should running of "ifup lo" get triggered when "ifup ethN" is getting run from /etc/hotplug/net.agent? I ask because I have been experimenting with relying more on the /etc/rc.d/init/hotplug init script to get my PCI, net and USB device drivers loaded and the devices configured. To this end, I disabled /etc/rc.d/init/network. The result is that booting my system worked great, except /dev/lo wasn't enabled. For some reason, mozilla doesn't finish initializing if /dev/lo isn't activated. I suppose this is all stuff that can get sorted out later by distribution developers, but I thought there might be some value in sorting out as much of this boot process stuff as possible during the hotplug development process. I hope this isn't too far off topic. Miles _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel