> > Now, is there a trick that would help udev to create device nodes for > > DVB devices instantly? Or should I build the modules statically into the > > kernel? Another solution could be removing udev and going back to devfs, > > but as devfs is obsolete I'd like to stay away from that possibility. > > I also observed this, and I think it is an udev issue, but didn't > look into it so far. It might not be udev directly but something else > called from hotplug events, like HAL. > In case it matters, I'm using Debian unstable. > > Would be cool if someone had time to look into it. I had the same problem. I checked that /sys/driver/dvb/xxx appears as soon as the drivers are loaded (1-2 sec.) but udev agent is not called for 8-9 seconds more. Maybe it's a hotplug issue. Anyway I plan to investigate further asap. I have a gentoo with 2.6.12 Bye Uberto