On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 13:25 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Apr 6, 2005 12:26 PM, Ivan Gyurdiev <ivg2@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > What was wrong with it prior to this work - isn't this supposed to > > happen at modprobe time anyway? > > udev adds a wrinkle. My understanding is that sometimes... udev > doesn't finish creating the needed /dev/ entries before the modprobe > script fires. This is pretty much a feature of the Linux 2.6 kernel and udev combo. Search the lkml for threads about why this is so. > I don't think udev has a mechanism to communicate back > to modprobe with a "hey I'm done, run your install scripts now." So > as a result some people/hardware see this problem and some > people/hardware doesn't. This is exactly why we have the dev.d notifiers. Cheers, David