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SubjectRe: udev is too slow creating devices
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Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 10:00:52PM +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
>
>>OK. The fact is that, when mounting the root filesystem, the kernel can
>>(?) definitely say "there is no such device, and it's useless to wait
>>for it--so I panic". Is it possible to duplicate this logic in the case
>>with udev and modprobe? If so, it should be built into a common place
>>(either the kernel or into modprobe), but not into all apps.
>
>
> No, we need to just change the kernel to sit and spin for a while if the
> root partition is not found. This is the main problem right now for
> booting off of a USB device (or any other "slow" to discover device.)
> It's a known kernel issue, and there are patches for 2.4 for this, but
> no one has taken the time to update them for 2.6.
>
>
>>Then the "char-major" aliases were always broken, do I understand
>>correctly?
>
>
> Yes, for most drivers they are broken. Like sound, usb, and others.
>
>
>>Once we realize that, isn't it the time to mark the
>>"Automatic kernel module loading" in the kernel configuration as BROKEN
>>or OBSOLETE?
>
>
> Fine with me, I've been wanting to do that for years. Are you willing
> to handle the fallout of such a patch though? :)

Many thanks for detailed explanation. And, since char-major aliases
don't work with udev anyway, and net-pf aliases are easy to enumerate
and preload by parsing /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.alias, I think
that udev users are ready to handle the fallout of this patch.

>>>With hotplug/udev you *know* that the device node is available when your
>>>script in dev.d is called with the appropriate environment variables.
>>
>>Yes. Now we have a lot of short scriptlets under /etc/dev.d. But I don't
>>yet see how these scriptlets interact with each other.
>
>
> What do you mean? What kind of relationship do you need explained about
> them?

Implementation of various logical primitives. E.g., I use GPRS and want
to start pppd during the boot process (i.e., an always-on link), but
after the following things:

1) /dev/ttyS0 has been created
2) /dev/ppp has been created
3) modules for line disciplines and PPP compression have been preloaded
(e.g. by grepping modules.alias for tty-ldisc and ppp-compress) and are
ready for use by pppd
4) firewall rules have been applied

How to "AND" these things together in a /etc/dev.d scriptlet?

--
Alexander E. Patrakov

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