Re: State of devfs in 2.6?

From: Eduard Bloch
Date: Tue Dec 09 2003 - 11:50:02 EST


#include <hallo.h>
* Greg KH [Tue, Dec 09 2003, 08:27:47AM]:

> Like Matthew stated, either use the udev rc startup script, or put udev
> into your initramfs image to catch all of the early boot messages.
> Doing the initramfs method is still very tough to do right now, but
> people have reported success that way. I still recommend just using the
> init.d script for now.

Wouln't it be less error-prone to introduce a kind of queing for the
hotplug program so kernel puts all the registered devices in a list and
the list is submitted in one pass when udev asks for it?

MfG,
Eduard.
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