Re: debian and UDEV

2006-05-17 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>You can't wait for an hotplug/udev event to be done processing. That >>is always done asynchron without any feedback of completion. > This is not correct. Look at the while loop in the init script and and > the udevsettle sour

Re: debian and UDEV

2006-05-16 Thread Sven Mueller
Marco d'Itri wrote on 15/05/2006 14:03: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>You can't wait for an hotplug/udev event to be done processing. That >>is always done asynchron without any feedback of completion. > > This is not correct. Look at the while loop in the init script and and > the udevsettle so

Re: debian and UDEV

2006-05-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> The most hideous problem of hotplug/udev is the following: >> >> You can't wait for an hotplug/udev event to be done processing. That >> is always done asynchron without any feedback of completion. >> >> >> Consequently

Re: debian and UDEV

2006-05-15 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >You can't wait for an hotplug/udev event to be done processing. That >is always done asynchron without any feedback of completion. This is not correct. Look at the while loop in the init script and and the udevsettle source. >will randomly fail or succeed depending on cu

Re: debian and UDEV

2006-05-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > The most hideous problem of hotplug/udev is the following: > > You can't wait for an hotplug/udev event to be done processing. That > is always done asynchron without any feedback of completion. > > > Consequently any module loading has to randomly wait a while till

Re: debian and UDEV

2006-05-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 08:50:27AM -0700, Jim Bodkikns (Dakotacom) wrote: >> ALL of the servers chosen to be reinstalled with a debian distro have >> high performance raid controllers and fail installs due to UDEV issues. (I >> hate that redhat hand

Re: debian and UDEV

2006-05-13 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 08:50:27AM -0700, Jim Bodkikns (Dakotacom) wrote: > ALL of the servers chosen to be reinstalled with a debian distro have > high performance raid controllers and fail installs due to UDEV issues. (I > hate that redhat handles this - I"m not really a fan of redhat). I hav

Re: debian and UDEV

2006-05-13 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Sat, 13 May 2006 08:50:27 -0700 Jim Bodkikns (Dakotacom) wrote: >I am not a fan of UDEV, [snip] I have contacted the hotplug people, [snip snip] > I prefer debian - but [snip] am going to deploy FC bordeaux instead. > >I am only reporting this to let people know that this is an issue,

debian and UDEV

2006-05-13 Thread Jim Bodkikns (Dakotacom)
Hi, I am not a fan of UDEV, while I am a fan of debian. Its a shame that debian - in my experience - doesnt handle UDEV well. I have had problems with kernel version transitions as well as new installs. (High performance raid controllers from ICP-Vortex). I have contacted the hotplug people,