Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: brltty not starting early enough

[Roy Marples]

On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 12:04 -0600, William Hubbs wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 05:19:39PM +0000, Roy Marples wrote:
> > Some scripts do run before checkroot, such as clock. clock should be the
> > first script started, so if you want it to go really early then
>
> My goal is to have the braille display active as early is possible so
> that if an error occurs during the boot process a blind person would
> know about it.  I can't start before /proc, /dev, and /sys are mounted
> because brltty uses things in those filesystems.  Can you think of any
> possible reason that I would need to start before clock runs?  If not,
> I'll just use your first suggestion.
>
> Besides starting later than expected, will anything break if this goes
> on a baselayout 1 system?

depscan.sh may constantly complain about it

You could do this

depend() {
   if [ -z "$svcdir" ]; then
       before *
   fi
   after clock
}

But I would test to see what happens on baselayout-1 first.

Thanks

Roy

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