[arch-projects] [PATCH] [RFC][mkinitcpio] Cleanly stop udev >= 168 as recommended by upstream.

Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar
Sun May 1 19:11:32 EDT 2011


On 05/01/2011 07:59 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Am 30.04.2011 22:47, schrieb Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi:
>> N0: udev>= 168 is needed.
> What for?
For this patch. Newer commands introduced in udev 168.
>> N1: I guess the order is correct (first cleanup then exit).
>> N2: device-mapper/LVM udev rules must be parsed for initramfs creation
>>      to add OPTIONS+="db_persist"
> What does this cleanup do? Do we actually need it?
Remove files from /run/udev. Is what upstream recommend to do in 
initramfs stage, before re-run udevd on real root.
> In any case, we might still want to check if udev exited properly before
> proceeding.
 From udevadm(8) manpage:
control --exit Signal and wait for udevd to exit.

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Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
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