Re: [gentoo-dev] udev coldplugging and /etc/init.d/modules

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 03:14:56PM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 10:21 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > what's the best way to just completely disable udev coldplug-like
> > > module loading?
>
> > # NOTE: This also affects module coldplugging in udev-096 and higher
> > # If you want module coldplugging but not coldplugging of services then you
> > # can set RC_COLDPLUG="yes" and RC_PLUG_SERVICES="!*"
> >
> > so just set RC_COLDPLUG="no" and you will disable the module loading by
> > udev at boot time.
>
> Here's a question, then.  Is there a way, after boot, to cause udev to
> attempt to detect and load modules?  Basically, is there a way to
> emulate the old behavior of the "coldplug" init script?  This would be
> very useful for our LiveCD builds, since we've lost the ability to do
> "nohotplug" on the command line to disable cold plugging.

You can re-run /sbin/udevtrigger if you want to.

But why do it later?  Why not just let udev do it at the start of boot?
What do you gain by delaying this?

thanks,

greg k-h
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