Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] udev detection weirdness
Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 16:59:42
Message-Id: 04C7523D-3F8F-4033-8B76-3A2E935E6547@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] udev detection weirdness by Daniel Frey
1 > On Thu, 26 May 2016, at 7:14 am, Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com> wrote:
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3 > … I couldn't figure out why and installed grub2 and used UUIDs as a
4 > temporary fix.
5 >
6 > … It appears to be udev. Somewhere along in its stupid detection it
7 > decides to process USB devices before sata ports, thusly randomly
8 > renaming the boot drive to something else in the process.
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10 I don't understand.
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12 Surely this is why it's correct to use UUIDs or volume labels?
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14 A person shouldn't care what the kernel calls his hard-drives, nor in which order it enumerates its USB devices.
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17 > What eventually fixed it was building USB as modules. (Another kludge!)
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19 I don't understand why this is a kludge. I build everything I can as modules, so that no unneeded drivers are loaded.
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21 Stroller.