2007/1/1, Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org>:

On 12/31/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss03@volumehost.net> wrote:
> On Sunday 31 December 2006 13:12, "Richard Fish" < bigfish@asmallpond.org>
> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] USB freezes the machine...':
> > On 12/31/06, Marco Calviani <marco.calviani@gmail.com > wrote:
> > > some days ago i've upgraded to udev-103 (stable version). Since
> > > then i've experienced complete freezes of the machine (nothing
> > > responds, even external ping on the network) when USB devices are
> > > mounted.
> >
> > All udev does is create device nodes...it cannot effect the operation
> > of the device or cause the system to hang.
>
> Newer versions of udev (particularly 103) can also load kernel modules,
> which definitely can effect the operation of the device and can cause the
> system to hang.

Well udev can load modules, but if that causes the system to hang, it
is almost certainly a bug in that module.

Marco, if you suspect this at all, you can set RC_COLDPLUG=no in
/etc/conf.d/rc to completely disable module loading by udev.

-Richard
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