On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:33, James Hunt <james.hunt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 30/09/11 10:03, Kay Sievers wrote: >> --exit just does a clean shutdown, it will not check for pending >> events, only already running stuff will be properly finished, but >> nothing new will be started. > So if events are pending in udevd they will be lost unless trigger is called? There is no idea at all of any continuous handling of events from initramfs to the real root. These are completely different rule sets and the stuff from initramfs needs to be replayed anyway. >> If you want queued stuff, queued in udevd or the kernel, to be all >> handled before exiting, add a call to 'settle' before the --exit call. > Is that combination atomic? See above. You need to trigger anyway. The rootfs might configure the devices differently than the initramfs. The device database usually much more stuff to carry. 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
