Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 015 release

From: Kay Sievers (kay.sievers_at_vrfy.org)
Date: 01/31/04

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To: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@nosferatu.za.org>

    On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 08:27:01PM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
    > On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 20:15, Kay Sievers wrote:
    >
    > > > get time to test your latest patch - anything specific you need testing
    > > > of ?
    > >
    > > Nothing specific, I just need to know if it's working on other setups too :)
    > >
    > > Just compile it with DEBUG=true and let the '/etc/hotplug.d/default/udev.hotplug'
    > > symlink point to udevsend instead of udev. udevd will be automatically started.
    > > On reboot the first sequence I get in the syslog is 138 and udevd is pid [51].
    > >
    > > Don't mount /udev as tmpfs. udevd places its socket and lock file in there,
    > > long before you mount it over. I just recognized it cause I had two
    > > udevd running. /var/lock doesn't work cause it's also cleaned up after we
    > > are running.
    > >
    >
    > Our setup runs udev for creating /dev _very_ early, so I do not think
    > this will be a problem - will let you know.

    What means very early?
    I would expect hotplug events before your setup runs.

    Kay
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