[PATCH] Make udev/udevstart be one binary

[elogind.git] / extras / start_udev

diff --git a/extras/start_udev b/extras/start_udev
index caba5270c2065bc1e22933337cd506b8c8423a73..0212d4f8c13a7f49eabec2c46db1fe162f3a5b2a 100644 (file)
--- a/extras/start_udev
+++ b/extras/start_udev
@@ -4,11 +4,22 @@
 #
 # script to initialize /dev by using udev.
 #
+# Copyright (C) 2004 Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
+#
+# Released under the GPL v2 only.
+#
 # This needs to be run at the earliest possible point in the boot 
 # process.
 #
 # Based on the udev init.d script
 #
+# Thanks go out to the Gentoo developers for proving 
+# that this is possible to do.
+#
+# Yes, it's very verbose, feel free to turn off all of the echo calls,
+# they were there to make me feel better that everything was working
+# properly during development...
+#
 
 . /etc/udev/udev.conf
 
@@ -73,16 +84,16 @@ fi
 echo "mounting... ramfs at $udev_root"
 mount -n -t ramfs none $udev_root
 
-# We want to start udevd ourselves if it isn't already running.  This
-# lets udevd run at a sane nice level...
-echo "starting udevd"
-$udevd &
-
 # propogate /udev from /sys
 export ACTION=add
 export UDEV_NO_SLEEP=1
 echo "Creating initial udev device nodes:"
-run_udev
+
+# You can use the shell scripts above by calling run_udev or execute udevstart
+# which does the same thing, but much faster by not using shell.  
+#  only comment out one of the following lines.
+#run_udev
+/sbin/udevstart
 
 echo "making extra nodes"
 make_extra_nodes