When using a udev rule to download firmware to a USB device during bootup, I see that usbfs is not mounted at this early point in time. Rather, usbfs is mounted later in the boot process in the localmount init script. Addition: we use fxload to download firmware to a Cypress controller. This requires a node from the usbfs filesystem. Reproducible: Always
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Interesting. :)
Is fxload in /usr/sbin or /sbin? Where is the firmware?
fxload installs the bianry to /sbin. There's an example firmware at /usr/share/usb/a3load.hex, but I don't know what firmware the original submitter is using, but I suspect their complaint is that the procfs init.d needs to start before that custom udev rule runs.
Sucky :) What is really needed here is the ability to run sysinit as another runlevel with dependencies. I'm pretty certain this is doable in the near future.
Well, despite that fxload is still used, I consider it old and not upstream maintained. The last release is from year 2002 and does not even compile on Kernel 2.6 without patching. But still all major distributions have it. All new applications of this Chip get firmware loaded by kernel-modules using firmware_class. Dreaming: Maybe someone should write a kernel-module to do this? A hack to get firmware loaded until bug is solved: Do run udevadm trigger for these devices after mounting.
It might be an idea to udevtrigger after local mount for the cases where things need stuff in /usr or /var like say the infamous e10k module. I'm sure udev could supply such a script :)
(In reply to comment #6) > Well, despite that fxload is still used, I consider it old and not upstream > maintained. The last release is from year 2002 and does not even compile on > Kernel 2.6 without patching. But still all major distributions have it. > All new applications of this Chip get firmware loaded by kernel-modules using > firmware_class. Can you please point me to one of these applications, to see how this is done? I don't like fxload either, but it doesn't require me to maintain a kernel module. If I chose to talk USB in userspace only (libusb), I'd definitely want a userspace tool for firmware download.
(In reply to comment #7) > It might be an idea to udevtrigger after local mount for the cases where things > need stuff in /usr or /var like say the infamous e10k module. I'm sure udev > could supply such a script :) Why not move the usbfs mounting code out of localmount, and further up the rc chain? /lib/rcscripts/addons/udev-start.sh, for example. Or even /sbin/rc - proc is mounted there as well. After all, the usbfs mounting code is pretty failsafe and conditional, so it wouldn't hurt.
(In reply to comment #9) > Why not move the usbfs mounting code out of localmount, and further up the rc > chain? /lib/rcscripts/addons/udev-start.sh, for example. Or even /sbin/rc - > proc is mounted there as well. After all, the usbfs mounting code is pretty > failsafe and conditional, so it wouldn't hurt. init.sh mounts /dev, /proc and /sys which is the minimal needed to get things rolling. The idea is to shrink init.sh, not bloat it futher. The ideal minimal init.sh just mounts /proc as nearly everything needs it in the Linux world and then handles mounting /lib/rc/init.d as tmpfs or similar. At this point, we should be able to run enough to run init scripts AND generate the dependency tree if we need to.
Once #240984 is resolved, you can get udev to depend on procfs which solves this nicely :)
Bug 240984 is marked as fixed, can this one be closed?
