On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 11:51 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 03:38:06AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > Background: in the upcoming Ubuntu 5.10 we've been having some problems > > with /dev/input/mice not being created on startup despite the "mousedev" > > module being hard-loaded early in the boot sequence. > > (http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12915 for those interested). > > > > Debian has had similar problems too (http://bugs.debian.org/317333) and > > found that starting udevd earlier manually seemed to fix it. > > Yes, that's a good way to fix it. > One thing I'd like to see changed in udevd is to move the init_udevd_socket() and init_uevent_netlink_sock() calls to above the daemonization; that way when you call "udevd --daemon" from the init script, you *know* that the next command may cause a netlink event.
Right now there's an unknown amount of time between calling "udevd --daemon" and being able to safely "modprobe". This'd also mean that udevd could exit with an error status if it's unable to create the necessary sockets; rather than the child exiting and the status being lost. Scott -- Scott James Remnant [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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