Re: [kernel] char/raw.c devfs support

[Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Juan Quintela <quintela@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> > > sometimes, the bootstraping process wait for minutes because of
> > > some sort of race between devfsd and minilogd (remeber syslogd
> > > hasn't yet be started since it's a service launched after
> > > rc.sysinit let rc play with init levels.
> >
> > Is it related to those lockups with "Loading compose table ..." as
> > the last message?
>
> Yes.

just a question of time : rc.sysinit has the time to do a few things
before devfsd and minilogd clashes.
aurora helps to debug: take a slow box with few memory, enable aurora,
and you'll see it.
with pixel, we've altered all /etc/rc.d/ stuff to use /bin/bash -x,
run devfsd in debug mode on another console to find the problem source.