The patch attached to comment #35 in the upstrream bug (i915-hotplug- per-output-fix.patch) does resolve this issue on my system. Udevd mostly sleeps and udevadm monitor is silent. I'm attaching a patch that works with the Ubuntu kernel (karmic, 2.6.31-16).
** Attachment added: "i915.patch" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36718937/i915.patch -- spam of change events from drm/card0 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/440411 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
