Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754479AbZITPKV (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:10:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753566AbZITPKU (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:10:20 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:52738 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753912AbZITPKQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:10:16 -0400 Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:08:42 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Dave Airlie Cc: Ingo Molnar , Kay Sievers , Linus Torvalds , "Eric W. Biederman" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [bug] /etc/profile: line 30: /dev/null: Permission denied (Was: Re: [PATCH] Remove broken by design and by implementation devtmpfs maintenance disaster) Message-ID: <20090920150842.GF11621@kroah.com> References: <1253238637.4071.10.camel@yio.site> <20090918060210.GC7104@kroah.com> <20090918150541.GB9307@kroah.com> <20090918195005.GA11726@elte.hu> <21d7e9970909191843l6fbb835bme509c18cedfd728c@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <21d7e9970909191843l6fbb835bme509c18cedfd728c@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1015 Lines: 24 On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 11:43:33AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: > > > > Self-contained /dev is great, udev is a total PITA on older distros (on > > this box it sometimes takes 3 minutes for udev to boot ...) so turning > > on devtmpfs and getting something functional in exchange is a big > > selling point IMO. > > udev taking 3 minutes usually means you have a kernel driver bug, > udev doesn't have a sleep for 3 minutes, it loads drivers and usually > waits for them to finish. Since someone decided to merge a stupid > floppy PNP match I've seen a lot of floppyless machines hit a 30sec > udev delay. so many that we disabled the pnp floppy on Fedora. Woah, I've run into this problem as well. Where is this PNP floppy match so I can disable it? thanks, greg k-h -- 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/