axnet_cs and udev

Stefan Wolf wolfs at informatik.tu-muenchen.de
Mon Mar 8 22:19:30 GMT 2004


Hi,

On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Russell King wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 07:52:46PM +0100, Stefan Wolf wrote:
> > On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Russell King wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 04:41:52PM +0100, Stefan Wolf wrote:
> > > > But I still have the race condition between cardmgr and an
> > > > other service which both are starting my network script.
> > > That'll be a race between cardmgr and hotplug.  Hotplug now has the
> > > responsibility to bring up network devices, so your PCMCIA network
> > > script (/etc/pcmcia/network) should ignore the 'start' action.
> > But the stop action isn't handled by hotplug? Why is this so?
> > At least in my system hotplug starts the network, but doesn't stop it!
>
> Well, under 2.6, I'm running with this:
>
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           14 Jul 16  2003 /etc/pcmcia/network -> ../../bin/true
>
> and everything seems happy, but then I did put this test box together
> from scratch.
>
> The only reason I didn't suggest doing the same for the 'stop' action
> is that the Fedora Core 1 scripts don't do so, neither do the Red Hat
> scripts.  Maybe the problem is that 2.4 kernels don't give the
> required event... shrug.

But I'm running 2.6.4_rc1-love3 !!

--
  Stefan Wolf <glowwormy at web.de>



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