On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 14:02 +0100, Philip Dillon-Thiselton wrote:
> I think the udev update has somehow broken some functionality in
> gensplash. Previously it was possible to use F2 via evdev to switch
> between 2 virtual consoles during startup. Here's the code that enables
> evdev for gensplash (it's not fully implemented):
>
> splash_evdev_prep()
> {
> if [[ -e /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/input/evdev.ko ]] ; then
> modprobe evdev
> local t=$(grep -Hsi keyboard
> /sys/class/input/event*/device/driver/description | grep -o 'event[0-9]\+')
> if [[ -n "${t}" ]]; then
> splash_comm_send "set event dev /dev/input/${t}"
> fi
> fi
> }
>
> I can only guess that the new udev has screwed this up somehow - i
> switched back to the previous -3 release and it is fine. I wonder if
> some side effect has been overlooked in the updated udev code?
>
> Phil
>
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The new udev has /sbin/udevsend as hotplug event program
in /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug. Having /sbin/hotplug in there breaks hal on
newer kernels. On older kernels, this problem does not occur.
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