[arch-projects] [initscripts][PATCH 0/3] Minor cleanup to rc and disabling udevadm settle

[Tom Gundersen]

On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 3:01 AM, Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com> wrote:
> This is mostly for the first patch, which allows setting UDEV_TIMEOUT=0 to
> prevent 'udevadm settle' from being called. Looking back historically, this
> seems to cause a lot of grief with a lot of hardware. Googling turns up things
> such as...
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cryptsetup/+bug/387086
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585527
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/4/12/538
> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=117481
>
> So, we're looking at both recent and less recent. Moreover, most people
> won't miss this if its disabled, as it's really just acting as a barrier
> for coldplug events to complete processing. As long as it's optional and
> documented, I think this is a reasonable thing to do.
>
> d
>
> diffstat:
>  rc         |   15 +++++++++------
>  rc.conf    |    3 ++-
>  rc.sysinit |    4 ++--
>  3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
>

I pushed 2 and 3, and the cleanup part of 1. I'm not sold on the need
for the rest of 1, but if I'm wrong I'll push it out later.

Thanks for your work!

-t