On Wednesday, July 02, 2008 10:11 am Benjamin Li wrote: > Hi Ben, > > Currently what we are seeing on older RHEL 4 and 5 machine is that udev > is looking through the entire '/sys/bus/pci/devices/...' directory and > reading the vpd contents. When this happens our devices are hung before > any user gets a chance to log in. Therefore, we need to prevent this > from happening at boot time. Changing the permissions to root didn't > solve our problem because we are running udev with root permissions. > > Thanks again. Yeah I remember dealing with something similar when we added the sysfs rom file. Why HAL opens & reads every sysfs file boggles the mind, but old versions do... I'll queue up the fix and send another pull request to Linus today; did you see Matthew's comment about the cached revision field? Thanks, Jesse -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
