Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 015 release

Kay Sievers
2004-01-31T18:39:34Z

On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 08:27:01PM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 20:15, Kay Sievers wrote:
>
> > > get time to test your latest patch - anything specific you need testing
> > > of ?
> >
> > Nothing specific, I just need to know if it's working on other setups too :)
> >
> > Just compile it with DEBUG=true and let the '/etc/hotplug.d/default/udev.hotplug'
> > symlink point to udevsend instead of udev. udevd will be automatically started.
> > On reboot the first sequence I get in the syslog is 138 and udevd is pid [51].
> >
> > Don't mount /udev as tmpfs. udevd places its socket and lock file in there,
> > long before you mount it over. I just recognized it cause I had two
> > udevd running. /var/lock doesn't work cause it's also cleaned up after we
> > are running.
> >
>
> Our setup runs udev for creating /dev _very_ early, so I do not think
> this will be a problem - will let you know.

What means very early?
I would expect hotplug events before your setup runs.

Kay