Bug 373575

Summary:	sys-fs/udev misbehaves when CONFIG_PRINTK=n
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	udev maintainers <udev-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	kfm
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Manuel Lauss 2011-06-30 11:14:58 UTC

I built kernels for embedded systems with CONFIG_PRINTK=n,
however udev-171-r1 doesn't like that:
in /etc/init.d/udev, function populate_dev(), the call "udevadm control --property=STARTUP=1" takes over a minute to complete, and subsequently no nodes are created (and system doesn't boot to a login prompt).

Enabling CONFIG_PRINTK=y resolves it, and I realize building a completely silent kernel isn't a particularly good idea, but still it would be nice if udev could cope with it.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Manuel Lauss 2012-07-09 11:55:30 UTC

I'm marking this as resolved: on a current 3.5-rc git kernel,
udev-186 on all my test targets comes up fine with CONFIG_PRINTK=n set.