udev.conf

# Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium OS Authors. All rights reserved.
# Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
# found in the LICENSE file.

description     "Start the udev daemon"
author          "chromium-os-dev@chromium.org"

# Start udev early so flimflam can be notified of "wlan0".  The
# general "trigger" for remaining devices is now in the udev-addon
# job
start on starting boot-services

respawn
expect fork

pre-start script
  # udev uses inotify to monitor the dynamic rules directory
  # /dev/.udev/rules.d; however, this directory must exist before
  # udevd runs, or the inotify won't find the directory even if it
  # is created later.  This is an issue with udev-146.  Udev
  # versions 156 and later do not exhibit this problem, and for
  # those this test is not necessary.
  if [ ! -d /dev/.udev/rules.d ]; then
    mkdir -p /dev/.udev/rules.d
  fi

  # If the driver for built-in WIFI is a module, the udev-addon job
  # will have recorded the driver name on the previous boot cycle.
  # Load that driver now so flimflam can config the wireless LAN sooner,
  # ideally by the time login screen is up.
  #
  # Note: failure to probe the module here is NOT fatal.
  drvfile=/var/lib/preload-wifi-driver
  if [ -s $drvfile ] ; then
    drv=$(head -1 $drvfile)
    if ! modprobe "$drv" >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
      # If modprobe didn't like the alias file for some reason, just
      # move it out of the way.  The udev-addon job will make a new
      # one.
      mv $drvfile $drvfile.bad
      MESSAGE="udev pre-start: modprobe $drv failed."
      MESSAGE="$MESSAGE  Renamed $drvfile with .bad suffix."
      logger "$MESSAGE"
    fi
  fi
end script

exec udevd --daemon