On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 09:22, Ron Rindjunsky<rindjon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> The system needs to "coldplug", during bootup, when /dev is >> bootstrapped on tmpfs. That's usually done by "udevadm trigger". Al >> that is part of the system logic, and not built into udev itself. Udev >> provides only the mechanics, but does not execute it. > > i must have missed something. > you say there are two options: > 1 - ttyYY0 was created _before_ udev is up. in this case i guess that > all kernels come with a build in "udevadm trigger" in their bootstrap > image, so udev should be notified about the tty. Your system bootup logic has to call it. There is nothing that comes with the kernel itself. > 2 - ttyYY0 was created _after_ udev is up, in this case there should > be no problem. If all the filesystems needed by the script are available and writable at that time it should. > either cases my script should have run, but it didn't. > where is the wrong assumption here? You have to check your system, it's impossible to tell from outside. :) Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html