Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 01:12, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > Kay Sievers wrote:
> >> > _If_ the system doesn't wait for all block devices present at boot to
> >> > be enumerated before the boot script, then when the script looks in
> >> > that directory for a specific UUID, it would
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 01:12, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Kay Sievers wrote:
>> > _If_ the system doesn't wait for all block devices present at boot to
>> > be enumerated before the boot script, then when the script looks in
>> > that directory for a specific UUID, it would be good to wait until
>> > "
Kay Sievers wrote:
> > _If_ the system doesn't wait for all block devices present at boot to
> > be enumerated before the boot script, then when the script looks in
> > that directory for a specific UUID, it would be good to wait until
> > "has everything present at boot been enumerated?" says yes.
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 23:37, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Alan Stern wrote:
>> As for searching for a particular UUID, I believe recent changes to
>> sysfs/udev should improve the situation. There will be a "by_UUID"
>> directory somewhere, containing a bunch of symbolic links whose names
>> are the U
Alan Stern wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Apr 2009, Jamie Lokier wrote:
>
> > > Are you suggesting this new interface be exported to userspace somehow?
> >
> > Not directly. Only in the same way that open("/dev/console") delays
> > until there's a console, so reading the keyboard can delay until we
> > kno
On Sun, 26 Apr 2009, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > Are you suggesting this new interface be exported to userspace somehow?
>
> Not directly. Only in the same way that open("/dev/console") delays
> until there's a console, so reading the keyboard can delay until we
> know if we had a keyboard plugged i
Alan Stern wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Apr 2009, Jamie Lokier wrote:
>
> > I'm thinking this broader use:
> >
> > - My boot _script_ is waiting for a disk which identifies as
> > UUID=392852908752345749857 to appear before it can mount it on
> > /data. If there's no such disk, it proceed
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 02:41:52AM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> David VomLehn wrote:
> > I think this is over-engineered. This focused on boot devices, so you really
> > don't care about things like buses, and I don't perceive a broader use. What
> > really matters is particular boot device types,
