On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 23:56, F. Heitkamp <heitkamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have been trying udev 177. > > My system is basically a linux from scratch like system. > > Any thoughts? > > Fred > > bash-4.2$ uname -a > Linux pc1lin 3.2.0-rt10 #2 SMP Fri Jan 13 06:16:51 EST 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > Udev seems to mostly work properly however the firmware for the Echo Gina3g > PCI card will not load. > The card firmware loaded properly with older udev versions and also works > with Debian unstable on another drive. My guess it's that this is another driver that calls request_firmware() in the module_init() path, which is a kernel bug that needs to be fixed. No driver must depend on calling out to userspace while linking the module into the kernel. Udev 176+ enforces strict event order. Here is an explanation in detail for some netdev drivers which cause problems now: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/217729/focus=83956 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
