Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266758AbUITQ0p (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:26:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266807AbUITQ0o (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:26:44 -0400 Received: from pyxis.pixelized.ch ([213.239.200.113]:32160 "EHLO pyxis.pixelized.ch") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266758AbUITQ0a (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:26:30 -0400 Message-ID: <414F02AB.4080208@debian.org> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 18:17:47 +0200 From: "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Alexander E. Patrakov" CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: udev is too slow creating devices References: <414C9003.9070707@softhome.net> <1095568704.6545.17.camel@gaston> <414D42F6.5010609@softhome.net> <20040919140034.2257b342.Ballarin.Marc@gmx.de> <414D96EF.6030302@softhome.net> <20040919171456.0c749cf8.Ballarin.Marc@gmx.de> <20040919173035.GA2345@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1159 Lines: 38 Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > > 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? and 5) /tmp is read-write 6) /var is mounted 7) log daemon is already running but I think they can implemented with a waiting queue or other user-space implementation. Hmm wait, we will miss the event between udev loaded and /var mounted and dev.d started! ciao cate PS: I hope this discussion will start project of re-thinking the boot/init.d method. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/