Re: DeviceKit and /usr

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> writes:

> Gabor Gombas wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 06:43:35PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> 
>>> For your proposal to work, you'd need some kind of replay mechanism, which
>>> allows udev to replay the add/remove events when /usr is available the extended
>>> ruleset is activated.
>> 
>> You mean "udevadm trigger"?
>
> "udevadm trigger" afaik only works for coldplug events. It's also a very costly
> operation. So imho it would require a more elaborate mechanism to only replay a
> certain set of events, e.g. for rules files which failed (with e.g. a given
> return code).
>
> Michael
> -- 
> Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the
> universe are pointed away from Earth?

It is my understanding that the events get triggered in/before the
initramfs and need to be replayed after switching to / already.
How is replaying them when entering runlevel 2 any different from
that?

Or am I wrong there?

MfG
        Goswin