[arch-dev-public] [signoff] udev 118-4

[Tobias Powalowski]

Am Samstag, 8. März 2008 schrieb Dan McGee:
> On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> 
wrote:
> >  >  Somehow, module loading is considerably faster here than before (even
> >  >  fast than with 118-2)
> >
> >  Yeah, there were 2 filesystem globbing based loops in there that were
> >  the major killers... for every module load it was doing a "ls
> >  /foo/bar/*/*/blah" which is ridiculously slow.
> >
> >  >  >  Module loading and all that should be back to sanity, with
> >  >  > slightly improved performance due to moving the framebuffer modules
> >  >  > out to a udev rule.
> >  >
> >  >  Doesn't work: intelfb is loaded here (but doesn't do anything, as
> >  >  intelfb never worked).
> >
> >  Weird. Same thing here. I assumed it was working because it was
> >  balking before when it tried to load nvidiafb, and then stopped
> >  freaking out. Apparently, though, nvidiafb is loaded here... and doing
> >  nothing. So this udev rule to skip the modalias load fails... hrm
>
> Works for me. Signoff i686.
>
> -Dan

no signoff
please add the framebuffer blacklist again to load-modules.sh, it's not 
possible to block framebuffer loading by udev rules.

framebuffer modules can cause weird issues for amd/ati and nvidia binary 
drivers.

thanks
greetings
tpowa

-- 
Tobias Powalowski
Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa)
http://www.archlinux.org
tpowa at archlinux.org
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