On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 20:34 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: > >>>I.o.w. is it still necessary to have RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="yes" as a > >>>default or can we move to a pure udev system and change the default to > >>>"no". > >>> > >>> > >>I've been running my boxes successfully with "no" since the option > >>showed up just fine :) > >> > >> > >> > > > >I think people is under a misconception about this option and ... you > >really only need to enable this for a driver that is not sysfs aware > >(nvidia comes to mind - any others?), or if you have some custom nodes > >in /dev that you cannot do via udev ... And I am pretty sure (correct > >me if I am wrong) that all (or most?) in-kernel drivers are sysfs aware, > >and only a handful outside are not. > > > > > > > > Well, I do have a small issue with the software RAID (md) driver, in > that when autodetection is not performed by the driver (due to either > being a module or booting the system through an initramfs), no sysfs > entries or device nodes are created. > > Normally my RAID system is brought up inside my initramfs with static > nodes, so this really only affects my recovery CD, where I need to run: > > for d in 0 1 2 3; do > /sbin/mdadm --assemble --config=partitions --auto=md > --super-minor=$d /dev/md$d >/dev/null 2>&1 > done > > Maybe something similar will be required in /sbin/rc, like you currently > do for LVM and the device mapper? It isn't a critical problem > though...I am pretty sure there are only a few Gentoo users who will > ever see this...maybe as few as 1!!! >
Mike, what do you think? This viable? We could maybe add an init addon for md, and move the lvm/whatever stuff to that as well? -- Martin Schlemmer Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer Cape Town, South Africa
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