[Yaird-devel] Bug#353480: [parisc-linux] Re: Bug#353480: yaird: [hppa] /dev/sd* device nodes not created and eth0 not enabled

[joel.soete at tiscali.be]

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>From      : "Matthew Wilcox" matthew at wil.cx
To          : "Joel Soete" soete.joel at tiscali.be
CC          : "parisc-linux" parisc-linux at lists.parisc-linux.org,"kyle"
kyle at mcmartin.ca,"aragorn" aragorn at tiscali.nl,"tsg45800"
tsg45800 at scarlet.be,"353480" 353480 at bugs.debian.org,"debian-hppa"
debian-hppa at lists.debian.org
Date      : Tue, 21 Feb 2006 10:26:06 -0700
Subject : Re: [parisc-linux] Re: Bug#353480: yaird: [hppa] /dev/sd* device
nodes not created and eth0 not enabled

> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 06:00:43PM +0100, Joel Soete wrote:
> > Just a small update to confirm that works fine:
> > INIT: version 2.86 booting
> > Starting the hotplug events dispatcher: udevd.
> > Synthesizing the initial hotplug events...done.
> > Waiting for /dev to be fully populated...
> > done (timeout).
> 
> How is timing out "works fine"?  Works better, sure, but why is it
> timing out?
> 
Right: works far better ;<)

That said, I have a look in more detail about 'timeout' and it seems to me
that this system just need more time to complete its '/dev full population'. I
so increased timeout const to 90 (60 is not yet enough) and it finished
without any more timing out (for smp and up 32bit kernel):
[...]
[42949443.400000] 356k freed
INIT: version 2.86 booting
Starting the hotplug events dispatcher: udevd.
Synthesizing the initial hotplug events...done.
Waiting for /dev to be fully populated...done.
Will now activate swap.
swapon on /dev/md/1
[42949602.860000] Adding 385976k swap on /dev/md/1.  Priority:-1 extents:1
across:385976k
Done activating swap.
Will now check root file system.
[...]

Hth,
    Joel

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