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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: /usr vs. initramfs redux
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2011 03:12:08
Message-Id: 20110807031117.GA10516@linux1
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: /usr vs. initramfs redux by Steven J Long
1 On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 08:22:23PM +0100, Steven J Long wrote:
2 > I have the same setup and no issues either. I think the problem is for other
3 > devices, eg someone mentioned having a bluetooth adapter in their laptop
4 > which gets picked up at boot by udev, but needs helpers in /usr.
5 >
6 > According to https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364235#c1 udev marks
7 > (or marked) failing probers as missing devices, not failed, so udev-
8 > postmount doesn't pick on them as needing to be rescanned.
9 >
10 > I'm not sure if that bug's been fixed or not; the call to util_run_program
11 > is no longer in that function at:
12 > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/hotplug/udev.git;a=blob_plain;f=udev/udev-
13 > rules.c;hb=HEAD
14 > ..but it might well have the same logical error for all I know.
15
16 The concern about udev-postmount is the line that says:
17
18 udevadm trigger --type=failed
19
20 The --type=failed option is going away and upstream is getting rid of
21 the failed marking eventually; there will be no more "failed" events
22 either.
23
24 William