Hi,

On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 7:32 AM Khem Raj <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2/13/20 2:30 AM, Andrei Gherzan wrote:
> > When starting psplash as early as possible in the boot process, the fb
> > device node might not be ready. This patch adds a loop on reading the
> > fb0 device with a timeout of 5 seconds.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Andrei Gherzan <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >   psplash-fb.c | 5 ++++-
> >   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/psplash-fb.c b/psplash-fb.c
> > index 6603572..6700a3b 100644
> > --- a/psplash-fb.c
> > +++ b/psplash-fb.c
> > @@ -137,6 +137,7 @@ psplash_fb_new (int angle, int fbdev_id)
> >     struct fb_fix_screeninfo fb_fix;
> >     int                      off;
> >     char                     fbdev[9] = "/dev/fb0";
> > +  int retries = 0;
> >
> >     PSplashFB *fb = NULL;
> >
> > @@ -156,7 +157,9 @@ psplash_fb_new (int angle, int fbdev_id)
> >
> >     fb->fd = -1;
> >
> > -  if ((fb->fd = open (fbdev, O_RDWR)) < 0)
> > +  while ((fb->fd = open(fbdev, O_RDWR)) < 0 && retries++ <= 100)
> > +       usleep(50000);
> > +  if (fb->fd < 0)
>
> i wonder if there should be a different way to ensure this dependency
> perhaps sd_notify for systemd or udev notification maybe ..
>

That makes sense. The only issue is that in my use-case, initramfs doesn't
have systemd. And usually, you will be wanting to run a splash way before
any init system. What is your proposal with udev notifications? Can you
expand that?

Regards,
Andrei
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