From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755618AbZEBHT4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 May 2009 03:19:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752070AbZEBHTr (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 May 2009 03:19:47 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:55568 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751895AbZEBHTr (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 May 2009 03:19:47 -0400 Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 03:19:39 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Kay Sievers Cc: Alan Cox , Greg KH , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel , Jan Blunck Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver-core: devtmpfs - driver core maintained /dev tmpfs Message-ID: <20090502071939.GA14094@infradead.org> References: <1241097822.2516.3.camel@poy> <20090430222900.c13b63d5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090501061701.GB19234@kroah.com> <20090430234312.a63fa5cf.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090501065527.GA19773@kroah.com> <20090501120359.05bacb48@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20090501141846.4b833700@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 03:24:01PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > I'm very sure, you can not fix it outside the kernel. Or do you have > an idea how to create the missing device nodes for device without > crawling sysfs, when the first userspace process is started? Just make sure to queue up your uevents in a ring buffer that udev can read once it has started?