After updating udev to 182-r3, my x86 laptop would pause for 30 seconds with "devfs: waiting for udev" and the ipw2200 wireless card would subsequently fail to initialise. I must admit that I don't fully understand the problem but this patch from Arch Linux (see URL) totally fixes the problem. They say some drivers need to be modified for this to be fixed properly.
I also just experienced this on my other laptop, which also happens to have an ipw2200. This is likely to affect anyone with that adapter as well as some other hardware and it's not at all obvious what to do about it, hence why I set this bug to major.
Is this still needed with udev-189?
Upstream is aware but hasn't fixed it for months, read this discussion - from the description it is exactly that: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=134918302507859&w=2
Sorry for the delay in testing, I am in the process of updating one of the affected machines now and the other doesn't get used very often.
It looks like this will be taken care of by the kernel when version 3.7 is released, so it shouldn't be an issue after that.
The following is the commit of interest in the kernel: https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commitdiff;h=abb139e75c2cdbb955e840d6331cb5863e409d0e
(In reply to comment #5) > It looks like this will be taken care of by the kernel when version 3.7 > is released, so it shouldn't be an issue after that. Right, so no need to keep this open anymore. Nice.
