[systemd-devel] systemd inquiry

[Mark Hounschell]

On 04/09/2012 08:06 PM, Colin Guthrie wrote:

>> Yep, that works. Can the NAutoVTs be set differently on a per target basis?
>
> Not as far as I know, but you should be able to do something similar via
> a conflicts directive.
>
> e.g. if you have NAutoVTs=6 by default you can just put:
> Conflicts=autovt at tty1.service autovt at tty2.service ... autovt at tty6.service
>
> This should prevent then kicking in. That said, I'm really not sure how
> much you gain here. They are loaded on demand afterall, so it's not like
> they are buring CPU cycles etc. Personally it doesn't seem worth the
> bother to me, but maybe you have your reasons :)
>

Again, thanks for the help. I do have my reasons but they are not really 
relevant. I will play with the Conflicts directive.

I am having another issue with an out of kernel "GPL" device driver not 
being available "on time" so to say. When the kernel discovers this pci 
card it loads it's kernel module and sets up the card for use. This 
takes around 15 seconds per card and there is usually 2-3 of them. When 
the card is up, running, and ready, the kernel module notifies udev who 
in turn executes a small script that creates 30 or so different device 
nodes for use with the card. This little script is not a systemd service 
nor a sysvinit script. When I use sysvinit, (maybe by luck) all this 
happens well before any app gets to run in my dedicated run-level. Using 
systemd it does not appear to. What does the udev-settle.service do? Can 
it help me here somehow or should I just assume that I will have to turn 
this script into a systemd service?

Regards
Mark