[OE-core] [PATCH 07/37] modutils-initscripts: fix wrong order of module loading happening in udev

Koen Kooi koen at dominion.thruhere.net
Mon Apr 25 16:35:06 UTC 2011


Is anyone still using 2.4 kernels? That's what modutils is for, module-init-tools is for 2.6 kernels

Op 25 apr. 2011 om 17:49 heeft Saul Wold <sgw at linux.intel.com> het volgende geschreven:

> On 04/25/2011 05:02 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> On 04/23/2011 12:28 AM, Saul Wold wrote:
>>> From: =?UTF-8?q?Petr=20=C5=A0tetiar?=<ynezz at true.cz>
>>> 
>>> In the current state, udev init script is loaded as 3rd and
>>> modutils.sh as
>>> 20th, so udevadm called in udev init script loads all kernel modules
>>> in some
>>> unpredictable order, not honoring in any way specified order of
>>> modules in
>>> /etc/modules. This causes some troubles mainly in the first boot. So
>>> to fix
>>> this we now move loading of the kernel modules just before we exec
>>> udev init
>>> script. Example of the current state:
>>> 
>>> Starting udev
>>> rtc-m48t86 rtc-m48t86: rtc core: registered m48t86 as rtc0
>>> rtc-m48t86 rtc-m48t86: battery ok
>>> ep93xx-rtc ep93xx-rtc: rtc core: registered ep93xx-rtc as rtc1
>>> 
>>> root at ts72xx:~# cat /etc/modules
>>> rtc-ep93xx
>>> ohci-hcd
>>> ts72xx_sbcinfo
>>> rtc-m48t86
>>> 
>>> As you can guess, this is really wrong behaviour, because I've rtc1 as
>>> the
>>> main time source for my system.
>>> 
>>> root at ts72xx:~# cat /etc/default/hwclock
>>> HWCLOCKACCESS=yes
>>> HWCLOCKDEVICE=/dev/rtc1
>>> 
>>> Expected behaviour with this patch applied:
>>> 
>>> Please wait: booting...
>>> ep93xx-rtc ep93xx-rtc: rtc core: registered ep93xx-rtc as rtc0
>>> usbcore: registered new device driver usb
>>> ohci_hcd: USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
>>> ...
>>> rtc-m48t86 rtc-m48t86: rtc core: registered m48t86 as rtc1
>>> rtc-m48t86 rtc-m48t86: battery ok
>>> Starting udev
>>> 
>>> Signed-off-by: Petr Štetiar<ynezz at true.cz>
>>> 
>>> (based on http://patches.openembedded.org/patch/1917/)
>>> Signed-off-by: Koen Kooi<koen at dominion.thruhere.net>
>>> Signed-off-by: Saul Wold<sgw at linux.intel.com>
>>> ---
>>> .../modutils/modutils-initscripts.bb | 4 ++--
>>> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>> 
>>> diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/modutils/modutils-initscripts.bb
>>> b/meta/recipes-kernel/modutils/modutils-initscripts.bb
>>> index 1665955..5ae34b4 100644
>>> --- a/meta/recipes-kernel/modutils/modutils-initscripts.bb
>>> +++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/modutils/modutils-initscripts.bb
>>> @@ -4,10 +4,10 @@ LICENSE = "PD"
>>> LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=7bf87fc37976e93ec66ad84fac58c098"
>>> SRC_URI = "file://modutils.sh \
>>> file://PD.patch"
>>> -PR = "r4"
>>> +PR = "r5"
>>> 
>>> INITSCRIPT_NAME = "modutils.sh"
>>> -INITSCRIPT_PARAMS = "start 20 S ."
>>> +INITSCRIPT_PARAMS = "start 2 S ."
>>> 
>>> inherit update-rc.d
>>> 
>> 
>> Should there not be a corresponding change to modutils_2.4.27.bb? It's
>> not clear to me
>> where there are these two separate recipes, but they should at least be
>> kept in sync.
>> 
> Gary,
> 
> Could you please resend this as a proper patch with Signed-off-by and commit info.
> 
> Thanks
>    Sau!
> 
>> diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/modutils/modutils_2.4.27.bb
>> b/meta/recipes-kernel/modutils/modutils_2.4.27.bb
>> index 1ebc90c..2944201 100644
>> --- a/meta/recipes-kernel/modutils/modutils_2.4.27.bb
>> +++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/modutils/modutils_2.4.27.bb
>> @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ manageable for all users, administrators and
>> distribution maintainers."
>> LICENSE = "GPLv2"
>> LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=8ca43cbc842c2336e835926c2166c28b"
>> DEPENDS = "bison-native"
>> -PR = "r9"
>> +PR = "r10"
>> 
>> SRC_URI =
>> "${KERNELORG_MIRROR}/linux/utils/kernel/modutils/v2.4/modutils-${PV}.tar.bz2
>> \
>> file://lex.l.diff;patch=1 \
>> @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ if test -n "$D"; then
>> done
>> fi
>> fi
>> -update-rc.d $D modutils.sh start 20 S .
>> +update-rc.d $D modutils.sh start 2 S .
>> }
>> 
>> pkg_prerm_modutils () {
>> 




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