[Lunar-commits] r18800 - moonbase/trunk/filesys/udev

[Moritz Heiber]

On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:37:30 -0500
Dennis Veatch <dveatch at woh.rr.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday 21 February 2006 18:27, Zbigniew Luszpinski wrote:
> > > Zbiggy. Don't have that hardware so can't test it. But to clarify
> > > my understanding. The usb firmware has to be loaded first before
> > > udev starts?
> >
> > No. But udevstart prevents later firmware upload. In the future
> > udevstart will be dropped permanently so will not be an issue.
> >
> > There are several ways of loading firmware:
> >
> > Usually the firmware is loaded by this line of udev.rules (included
> > in lunar): ENV{UDEVD_EVENT}=="1", RUN+="/sbin/udev_run_hotplugd"
> >
> > or can be loaded by:
> > ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="firmware", RUN
> > +="/lib/udev/firmware_helper" or
> > ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="firmware", RUN
> > +="/lib/udev/udev_run_hotplugd"
> >
> > The way I load firmware depends on udev version. If all these ways
> > fails I downgrade to last working udev and wait for next release.
> > Since few recent udev releases the official way of loading firmware
> > using firmware_hepler is finally working.
> >
> > This usb device I use is ADSL Speedtouch 330 modem.
> > http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/
> > but udev config is described here:
> > http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/firmware/index.html
> > (scroll down to udev section at the end of page)
> >
> > greets,
> > zbiggy
> 
> Thanks zbiggy. Moe has a pretty good handle on this and a workable
> solution should be available soon for udev-085.

Zbigniew, please try out the latest changes I just commited to udev and
the mount script (e2fsprogs). I'm quite sure I fixed all the remaining
quirks. If not .. please report. Thanks!

Regards,

Moritz
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