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Re: Bug#543717: Initramfs firmware loading fail due to udev being started too late



Please advise.

On Aug 27, Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT> wrote:

> On Aug 26, Benoit Plessis <benoit@plessis.info> wrote:
> 
> > I was stopped by the bnx2 driver being unable to load it's firmware when adding 'bnx2' in the 'modules' files,
> Why not letting udev load the driver by itself instead?
> 
> > Since udev is setup in init-premount, it's unavailable when loading modules and so firmware loading fail,
> > moving udev in init-top fixed the problem so i was wondering if there is a reason for this current location
> I got the original scripts from somebody else and I do not know much
> about the design of initramfs-tools.
> Can we start udev earlier? I see that some of the standard scripts
> manually run mknod to work around this.
> 
> -- 
> ciao,
> Marco



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ciao,
Marco

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