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SubjectRe: [ANNOUNCE] udev 011 release
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On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 21:04, J.A. Magallon wrote:

> 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).

Yah, I guess it ought to go lower, so long as sysfs is sufficiently
mounted before it runs.

The reason I put it at 20 was that it really does not matter. udev is
not a functional replacement for a static /dev while we do not have
initramfs. Once we have udev working during early boot, we won't need
the initscripts.

> 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.

Makes sense.

> 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.

Because if you have your udev on a persistent storage media (e.g., ext3,
like most of us) then it is nice to clear it out across reboots.

Rob Love


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