[ARMedslack] R: R: Trouble with udev on busybox based system

Davide louigi600 at yahoo.it
Mon May 9 06:42:38 UTC 2011


Could not grep modprobe in the udev scripts nor in the binary (with the aid of strings) ... so I looked in the rules.d and there it was.

But busybox modprobe does not support blacklists ... hope it won't hurt.

Regards
David

--- Lun 9/5/11, Davide <louigi600 at yahoo.it> ha scritto:

> Da: Davide <louigi600 at yahoo.it>
> Oggetto: [ARMedslack] R:  Trouble with udev on busybox based system
> A: "Slackware ARM port" <armedslack at lists.armedslack.org>
> Data: Lunedì 9 maggio 2011, 08:32
> Ok ... I started udevd with --debug
> and dumped stderr to somewhere I could read it. This is what
> came out (the intresting part):
> 5584.430610 [1032] udev_rules_apply_to_event: RUN
> '/sbin/modprobe -bv $env{MODA
> LIAS}' /lib/udev/rules.d/80-drivers.rules:5
> 5584.430746 [1032] util_run_program: '/sbin/modprobe -bv
> usb:vFFEEp0100d0100dc0
> 0dsc00dp00ic08isc06ip50' started
> 5584.435842 [1032] util_run_program: '/sbin/modprobe'
> (stderr) '/sbin/modprobe:
>  invalid option -- 'b''
> 5584.459928 [1032] util_run_program: '/sbin/modprobe'
> (stderr) 'BusyBox v1.18.4
>  (2011-04-20 14:04:26 BST)'
> 5584.460090 [1032] util_run_program: '/sbin/modprobe'
> (stderr) ' multi-call bin
> ary.'
> 5584.460178 [1032] util_run_program: '/sbin/modprobe'
> (stderr) ''
> 5584.460204 [1032] util_run_program: '/sbin/modprobe'
> (stderr) 'Usage: '
> 5584.460278 [1032] util_run_program: '/sbin/modprobe'
> (stderr) 'modprobe'
> 5584.460379 [1032] util_run_program: '/sbin/modprobe'
> (stderr) ' '
> 5584.460464 [1032] util_run_program: '/sbin/modprobe'
> (stderr) '[-qfwrsv] MODUL
> E [symbol=value]...'
> 5584.460489 [1032] util_run_program: '/sbin/modprobe'
> (stderr) ''
> 5584.460509 [1032] util_run_program: '/sbin/modprobe'
> (stderr) 'Options:'
> 5584.460530 [1032] util_run_program: '/sbin/modprobe'
> (stderr) '        -r
>         Remove MODULE (stacks) or do
> autoclean'
> 5584.460550 [1032] util_run_program: '/sbin/modprobe'
> (stderr) '        -q
> 
> It looks like udev is modprobing with options busybox
> modprobe does not understand.
> 
> Is this stuff hard coded in the source or is it in some
> script ?
> 
> Regards
> David
> 
> --- Lun 9/5/11, Davide <louigi600 at yahoo.it>
> ha scritto:
> 
> > Da: Davide <louigi600 at yahoo.it>
> > Oggetto: [ARMedslack] Trouble with udev on busybox
> based system
> > A: armedslack at lists.armedslack.org
> > Data: Lunedì 9 maggio 2011, 07:41
> > Ok this is a little off topic but
> > since I'm trying to make it look as close as possible
> to a
> > slackware system I thaught it could fit here anyway.
> > 
> > Although I did my best to adapt all the scripts
> around
> > /etc/rc.d and /lib/udev to work correctly with busybox
> (sh
> > and slightly different PATH): udev is not doing it's
> work
> > correctly.
> > 
> > udevd start apparently correctly but none of the
> modules
> > that should be loaded automatically actually get
> loaded.
> > For instance in order to see the Ethernet nic I;ve to
> load
> > manually mv643xx_eth, or if I want to use a usb flash
> stick
> > I've to do quite a bit of manual module loading.
> > Having a look at armedslack's rc.modules I see that
> > basically it's empty as far as dockstar is concerned
> so all
> > the modules do get auto loaded correctly.
> > No as far as kernel is concerned I'm using the exact
> same
> > setup on the busybox environment that is on the
> armedslack
> > miniroot system on onboard flash (I stopped using the
> kernel
> > I compiled) and both boot without initrd so no module
> > loading can be done by initrd.
> > 
> > Anyone have any idea how I could go about debugging
> this
> > issue ? or even better have any idea howto fix it ?
> > 
> > Regards
> > David
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