Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:58:16 +1000 | Subject | Re: [bug] /etc/profile: line 30: /dev/null: Permission denied (Was: Re: [PATCH] Remove broken by design and by implementation devtmpfs maintenance disaster) | From | Dave Airlie <> |
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On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 11:43:33AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: >> > >> > Self-contained /dev is great, udev is a total PITA on older distros (on >> > this box it sometimes takes 3 minutes for udev to boot ...) so turning >> > on devtmpfs and getting something functional in exchange is a big >> > selling point IMO. >> >> udev taking 3 minutes usually means you have a kernel driver bug, >> udev doesn't have a sleep for 3 minutes, it loads drivers and usually >> waits for them to finish. Since someone decided to merge a stupid >> floppy PNP match I've seen a lot of floppyless machines hit a 30sec >> udev delay. so many that we disabled the pnp floppy on Fedora. > > Woah, I've run into this problem as well. Where is this PNP floppy > match so I can disable it? > http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/kernel/F-12/die-floppy-die.patch?revision=1.1&view=markup
is what we are shipping currently, see if it helps.
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