udev and pcmcia

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Thu Aug 25 15:53:30 UTC 2005


Pete Zaitcev (zaitcev at redhat.com) said: 
> I seem to have figured this out. The udev is not implicated at all,
> because the kernel will not deliver any hotplug events until the
> pcmcia-socket-startup was run (so udev cannot do anything about it).
> 
> Harald suggested to look at scsi_replay() in /sbin/start_udev.
> I did, and while interesting, it seems like an overkill.
> I don't know if we want to enable pcmcia sockets that early.
> We do not boot from CF-in-PCMCIA adapter, right? My main concern
> is that anything running so early is hard to debug.
> 
> Bill, how about adding a script to pcmciautils (see appended)?

Looks like overkill for a configuration we don't build.

Realistically, there will probably be PCI replay stuff soon,
which should cover this.

Bill




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