From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <cate@pixelized.ch>
Cc: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>,
"Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <cate@debian.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>,
md@Linux.IT
Subject: Re: udev is too slow creating devices
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 14:35:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040914213506.GA22637@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <414757FD.5050209@pixelized.ch>
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 10:43:41PM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote:
> The "bug" appear only in two places: at udev start and after
> a modprobe, so IMHO we should correct these two place, so that:
> - from a user side perspective it is the right thing!
> (after a successful modprobe, I expect module and devices
> are created sussesfully)
That "expectation" is incorrect. The device node will show up any time
after modprobe has started, just because modprobe returns does not mean
the device node is present.
> - there are not many special case:
> with udev use dev.d, else do actions now!
I don't understand what you are proposing.
> Else every distribution should create a script for
> every init.d script that would eventually use (also
> indirectly) a kernel module.
What's wrong with the /etc/dev.d/ location for any type of script that
you want to run after a device node has appeared? This is an
application specific issue, not a kernel issue.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-14 21:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-14 18:33 udev is too slow creating devices Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2004-09-14 18:42 ` Greg KH
2004-09-14 19:21 ` Chris Meadors
2004-09-14 19:40 ` Chris Friesen
2004-09-14 19:52 ` Greg KH
2004-09-14 20:00 ` Chris Friesen
2004-09-14 20:43 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2004-09-14 21:35 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-09-14 21:45 ` Marco d'Itri
2004-09-14 21:51 ` Greg KH
2004-09-14 22:47 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-14 23:04 ` Greg KH
2004-09-14 23:20 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-14 23:34 ` Gianni Tedesco
2004-09-14 23:58 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-15 16:15 ` Greg KH
2004-09-15 19:21 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-15 22:09 ` Chris Friesen
2004-09-15 22:15 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-15 22:25 ` Greg KH
2004-09-15 22:23 ` Greg KH
2004-09-15 22:46 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-15 13:55 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2004-09-15 14:36 ` Ian Campbell
2004-09-15 15:20 ` Tonnerre
2004-09-15 15:45 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2004-09-15 16:12 ` Greg KH
2004-09-15 16:51 ` Marc Ballarin
2004-09-15 18:00 ` Greg KH
2004-09-19 16:51 ` Jon Masters
2004-09-19 18:53 ` Andreas Jellinghaus
2004-09-20 2:16 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2004-09-17 8:06 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2004-09-15 16:11 ` Greg KH
2004-09-15 16:09 ` Greg KH
2004-09-17 7:48 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2004-09-14 22:03 ` Marc Ballarin
[not found] <http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/9/14/316@localhost.localdomain>
2004-09-14 20:30 ` Michael Thonke
[not found] <http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/9/15/119@localhost.localdomain>
2004-09-15 14:26 ` Michael Thonke
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-18 19:25 Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2004-09-18 21:24 ` Greg KH
2004-09-18 19:44 Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2004-09-18 20:37 ` Marc Ballarin
2004-09-18 21:30 ` Greg KH
2004-09-19 0:06 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2004-09-19 0:41 ` Greg KH
2004-09-19 8:18 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2004-09-20 4:19 ` Greg KH
2004-09-19 4:38 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-09-19 8:27 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2004-09-19 11:53 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2004-09-19 17:32 ` Greg KH
2004-09-19 18:43 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-09-20 4:11 ` Greg KH
2004-09-20 10:52 ` Jon Masters
2004-09-19 12:00 ` Marc Ballarin
2004-09-19 14:25 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2004-09-19 15:14 ` Marc Ballarin
2004-09-19 16:00 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2004-09-19 17:11 ` Marc Ballarin
2004-09-19 17:30 ` Greg KH
2004-09-20 2:29 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2004-09-20 16:17 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2004-09-29 23:38 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-09-29 23:53 ` Greg KH
2004-09-19 19:40 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2004-09-20 0:05 ` Kyle Moffett
2004-09-20 4:06 ` Greg KH
2004-09-20 8:54 ` Marc Ballarin
2004-09-20 0:03 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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