Richard Fish wrote: >>>>I.o.w. is it still necessary to have RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="yes" as a >>>>default or can we move to a pure udev system and change the default to >>>>"no". >>>> >>>I've been running my boxes successfully with "no" since the option >>>showed up just fine :) >> >>I think people is under a misconception about this option and ... you >>really only need to enable this for a driver that is not sysfs aware >>(nvidia comes to mind - any others?), or if you have some custom nodes >>in /dev that you cannot do via udev ... And I am pretty sure (correct >>me if I am wrong) that all (or most?) in-kernel drivers are sysfs aware, >>and only a handful outside are not. >> > Well, I do have a small issue with the software RAID (md) driver, in > that when autodetection is not performed by the driver (due to either > being a module or booting the system through an initramfs), no sysfs > entries or device nodes are created. > > Normally my RAID system is brought up inside my initramfs with static > nodes, so this really only affects my recovery CD, where I need to run: > > for d in 0 1 2 3; do > /sbin/mdadm --assemble --config=partitions --auto=md > --super-minor=$d /dev/md$d >/dev/null 2>&1 > done > > Maybe something similar will be required in /sbin/rc, like you currently > do for LVM and the device mapper? It isn't a critical problem > though...I am pretty sure there are only a few Gentoo users who will > ever see this...maybe as few as 1!!! >
This might explain why this problem wasn't seen for the missing md devices in /lib/udev-state/devices.tar.bz2... I obviously don't use genkernel, nor initrd... I now add myself these devices by hand in the tar ball. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
