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

[William Hubbs]

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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?

Thanks much for your help.

William

> depend() {
>    before *
>    after clock
> }
>
> would also work. Note that you have to put the dependencies in that
> order, and it only works with baselayout-2.
>
> If you wanted it to start before clock you'll need to do this
>
> depend() {
>    before *
> }
>
> AND add this to /etc/conf.d/clock
> RC_AFTER=brltty
>
> Again, baselayout-2 only.
>
> Thanks
>
> Roy
>
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