[systemd-devel] [PATCH] udev: Allow the 'udevadm settle' timeout to be set via the kernel cmdline

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 11:48:36AM +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> On some really old hardware, the default timeout of 120 (which may even
> be reduced further on the command line) is insufficient.
> 
> While such cases are specialist and (nowadays) relatively rare, it is
> still nice to be able to provide a method to increase the timeout
> when needed.
> 
> Bug Link: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3315
> ---
> 
> I posted this one a while back before udev merge IIRC and was asked to
> make it use the newer APIs etc. which I've done. Can't remember if I
> reposted it back to the list or not. Would be nice if it was upstream
> just to save me carrying a fairly generic patch downstream.
> 
> It's quite a small patch, but there is no doc on this. Is there a file
> into which I should put a small chunk of doc on this option?
kernel-command-line(7), udevadm(8)

You can just always have a look at http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.directives.html and look at similar options.

Zbyszek