[systemd-devel] [PATCH] udevd: add --event-timeout commandline option

[Kay Sievers]

On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Hannes Reinecke <hare at suse.de> wrote:
> On large configurations some events take longer than the
> default 30 seconds. Killing those events will leave the
> machine halfway configured.
> So add a commandline option '--event-timeout' to handle these cases.

Why are they taking do long? Is device mapper involved? :)

Are you sure that the concurrency doesn't need to be limited instead?

And there is already an OPTIONS+="event_timeout=" which is done from rules,
which might better fit than a global switch to add to the daemon config?

Thanks,
Kay