[oe] Are we starting udev too early in the boot process?

Graeme Gregory dp at xora.org.uk
Sat Jan 9 21:47:41 UTC 2010


On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 10:20:20PM +0100, Rolf Leggewie wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> could it be that we are starting udev too early in the boot process?
> 
> http://bugs.openembedded.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5090
> http://bugs.openembedded.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5246
> 
> Above two bug reports whose effects I can confirm would suggest that to
> me.  But I'm not sure about the side-effects of starting udev later than
> where it currently is at.  Anybody care to comment?
> 
My opinion is the dev cache code is wrong, it should cache into /dev which
is the only place guaranteed to be writeable. There then should be a second
init script later in the boot process which moves this to /etc/

Graeme





More information about the Openembedded-devel mailing list