[systemd-devel] [PATCH 2/5] udev: builtin - use RUN rather than IMPORT where it makes sense

[Tom Gundersen]

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Kay Sievers <kay at vrfy.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Kay Sievers <kay at vrfy.org> wrote:
>
>>> IMPORT is used to be called immediately and not be queued up to the
>>> end of the rules handling, so that later rules could assume that this
>>> rule has finished. PROGRAM would do the same as IMPORT and run
>>> immediately, RUN always only happens at the very end, regardless where
>>> it shows up in the sequence.
>>>
>>> Not sure if that matter in any interesting way, but it is surely a
>>> different behaviour, and we should check that.
>>
>> Good point. I suppose it might be possible that later rules depend on
>> modules/firmware being loaded, so RUN is probably the wrong choice.
>> Any reason the ppdev module was loaded using RUN rather than IMPORT?
>
> Hmm, there is probably nothing that replies on that stuff. We should
> use one of the versions everywhere. But which one? :)

Well, was there a reason why the modules were loaded in
80-drivers.rules and not 99-drivers.rules? If not, I guess we could
rename it an use RUN, otherwise I suppose we'd have to stick with
IMPORT... Anyone else have an opinion?

-t