Re: RFC: ipw3945-daemon

[Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT>]

jurij@wooyd.org wrote:

>Thanks for the comments. As I don't have much experience in it, I've 
>asked Bastian Blank for advice, and he suggested that it's better to 
>do it with udev rules, since then we can be sure that the needed sysfs 
>entries have been created by the time the script runs. However, one 
>problem with that approach is that it is impossible to rmmod the 
>module then, as the daemon needs to be *stopped* before the module is 
>removed, otherwise rmmod aborts with "ERROR: Module ipw3945 is in 
>use". Is there a way to work around this problem in udev, or should I 
>just stick to modprobe instead?
No, I think modprobe directives are more appropriate for this task.
You need a script anyway to change the sysfs permissions, create the
/var/run/ directory, etc. So it can as well wait for the sysfs files to
appear. Let me know if you have more doubts.

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ciao,
Marco