On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 12:57, David Goodenough <david.goodenough@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Is there any way to get udev to replay coldplug events for device that it > could not run when it first tried to? > > My situation is that I have my kernel modules not in the rootfs (for a > good reason, not just for the sake of it) and they have not been mounted > when udev fires off its coldplug events. ÂDoes udev notice failed device > creation events and keep them anywhere that can be reused? > > I could simply fix all these modules into the kernel, but some wireless > drivers (it happens to be these I am having problems with) seem to > work better when loaded as modules (or is that just an old memory that > is no longer true). Udev will not anything like this on its own. And I don't know any distro which allows/supports /lib/* to be on a non-root filesystem. You can add some custom code though that triggers all events again after all filesystems are mounted. That should work in usual setups. 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
