[Buildroot] [PATCH] linux: don't automatically set uevent_helper with mdev /dev management
Peter Korsgaard
jacmet at uclibc.org
Fri Feb 7 20:50:54 UTC 2014
>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin at gmail.com> writes:
> When mdev /dev management is chosen in the buildroot configuration, the
> Linux configuration is updated automatically to set option
> CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH to "/sbin/mdev". However, the help text of this
> option explicitly recommends not setting this option due to large
> performance impact during boot (experienced first hand by the reporter ánd
> author).
> The mdev startup script S10mdev already sets the helper during userspace
> boot, which will make sure mdev is working correctly.
> Fixes bug #6596: https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=6596
> Reported-by: Andreas Koop <andreas.koop at zf.com>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire at gmail.com>
Hmm, but the the coldplug handling with 'mdev -s' afaik doesn't handle
module or firmware loading, so those features will break from this.
I would be interested in knowing why hotplug is so much slower than
coldplug. Do you have any idea about how many times mdev gets executed
during bootup?
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Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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