[arch-dev-public] [signoff] udev 118-4
Tobias Powalowski
t.powa at gmx.de
Sat Mar 8 11:34:10 EST 2008
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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