[PATCH] Bug #975

[Yann E. MORIN]

Natanael,
All,

On Tuesday 22 August 2006 003, Natanael Copa wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 23:10 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > Bug #975 is about udev spawning multiple modprobes at cold-plugging-time (that
> > is boot time). The problem occurs when two devices require the same module
> > (eg. two or more same PCI cards, two or more same USB keys, etc...).
> Does this affect mdev too? mdev -s?

I don't know, I haven't yet used mdev in BusyBox... :-/
Rob, could you enlighten us on this topic, please?

> How do you coldplug? 

My Debian etch simply uses a combination of udevtrigger (launches the coldplug
handling) followed by a udevsettle (waits for the event queue to be empty).

> Would it affect if you coldplug like this?:
> find /sys -name uevent | while read i ; do 
>   echo "add" > $if ;
Maybe: s/\$if/\$i/;
> done

Don't know, I haven't got any BusyBox system doing coldplug right now...
Again: Rob?

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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