Re: Bug#543717: Initramfs firmware loading fail due to udev being started too late

2010-02-22 Thread maximilian attems
On Sat, 06 Feb 2010, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Jan 26, maximilian attems m...@stro.at wrote: so it it will be run early enough that it is present for /etc/initramfs-tools/modules and no one will need to do mknoding. I cannot do this without coordination with the initramfs-tool package

Re: Bug#543717: Initramfs firmware loading fail due to udev being started too late

2010-02-05 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jan 26, maximilian attems m...@stro.at wrote: so it it will be run early enough that it is present for /etc/initramfs-tools/modules and no one will need to do mknoding. I cannot do this without coordination with the initramfs-tool package because load_modules and init-premount/blacklist

Re: Bug#543717: Initramfs firmware loading fail due to udev being started too late

2010-01-26 Thread maximilian attems
it has to be started earlier, that is clear. I haven't had the time to find out how early, aka at which state exactly. init-top so it it will be run early enough that it is present for /etc/initramfs-tools/modules and no one will need to do mknoding. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Bug#543717: Initramfs firmware loading fail due to udev being started too late

2010-01-26 Thread maximilian attems
On Tue, 26 Jan 2010, maximilian attems wrote: it has to be started earlier, that is clear. I haven't had the time to find out how early, aka at which state exactly. init-top so it it will be run early enough that it is present for /etc/initramfs-tools/modules and no one will need to do

Re: Bug#543717: Initramfs firmware loading fail due to udev being started too late

2009-12-02 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 30, maximilian attems m...@stro.at wrote: Can we start udev earlier? I see that some of the standard scripts manually run mknod to work around this. i'll have a look but won't have time before next weekend. such a big change needs to be well thought. Please let me know if you plan to

Re: Bug#543717: Initramfs firmware loading fail due to udev being started too late

2009-12-02 Thread maximilian attems
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 03:11:26PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Aug 30, maximilian attems m...@stro.at wrote: Can we start udev earlier? I see that some of the standard scripts manually run mknod to work around this. i'll have a look but won't have time before next weekend. such a

Re: Bug#543717: Initramfs firmware loading fail due to udev being started too late

2009-08-30 Thread maximilian attems
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Aug 26, Benoit Plessis ben...@plessis.info wrote: I was stopped by the bnx2 driver being unable to load it's firmware when adding 'bnx2' in the 'modules' files, Why not letting udev load the driver by itself instead? Since udev is setup in

Re: Bug#543717: Initramfs firmware loading fail due to udev being started too late

2009-08-29 Thread Marco d'Itri
Please advise. On Aug 27, Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it wrote: On Aug 26, Benoit Plessis ben...@plessis.info wrote: I was stopped by the bnx2 driver being unable to load it's firmware when adding 'bnx2' in the 'modules' files, Why not letting udev load the driver by itself instead?

Re: Bug#543717: Initramfs firmware loading fail due to udev being started too late

2009-08-26 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 26, Benoit Plessis ben...@plessis.info wrote: I was stopped by the bnx2 driver being unable to load it's firmware when adding 'bnx2' in the 'modules' files, Why not letting udev load the driver by itself instead? Since udev is setup in init-premount, it's unavailable when loading