Re: [PATCH] udev: udevd shall inform us abot trouble

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Saturday 11 September 2004 20:48, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> > Well, I lied a bit. These lines are from my home box, which is not
> > udev'ified yet. At the job, I sit on i815 box, and there amixer
> > fails to set volume. It happens 100% of the time. Adding "sleep 1"
> > after modprobing helps. With devfs it worked without sleep.
>
> This is correct; with devfs, creation of device nodes during module
> loading was synchronous, so it was always (or nearly always) complete
> before modprobe returned. With udev, creation of device nodes is
> completely asynchronous, and may happen at _any_ time after the module
> has been loaded.

Yes. I know why it works differently.

> The real solution here is for people to re-think their system startup
> processes; if you need mixer settings applied at startup, then build a
> small script somewhere in /etc/hotplug.d or /etc/dev.d that applies them
> to the mixer _when it appears_.

As a user, I prefer to be able to use device right away after
modprobe. Imagine ethN appearing "sometime after" modprobe.
Would you like such behavior?
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vda

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