From: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [PATCH] hotplug usb.rc changes
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 19:45:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-105544765527779@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-105529235705938@msgid-missing>
David Brownell (david-b@pacbell.net) said:
> > We actually load them outside of the usb hotplug framework.
>
> Which is a bit of a problem in terms of getting convergence. It'd
> be good to have a standard way to start up USB, and that's exactly
> what "/etc/hotplug/usb.rc start" was intended to do.
>
> If I understand why RedHat's rc.sysinit does it that way, there are
> a few reasons. One is (a) to use "kudzu" static config data, which
> knows various USB-specific, overlapping /etc/sysconfig/usb a bit.
> The better (IMO) reason is (b) to ensure that USB keyboards/mice can
> be used during system bootstrap, if the kernel (or its initrd) didn't
> build them in. That's early for "usb.rc start", since hotplug agents
> often can't run that early (filesystems unmounted or readonly, etc).
> And it also doesn't use the same conventions as "usb.rc" does.
It's actually only for the second reason; so that the keyboard is
there if (for example) fsck fails.
Bill
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-12 19:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-11 0:43 [linux-usb-devel] Re: [PATCH] hotplug usb.rc changes David Brownell
2003-06-11 2:04 ` Bill Nottingham
2003-06-11 6:29 ` Olaf Hering
2003-06-11 16:22 ` Bill Nottingham
2003-06-11 17:00 ` Olaf Hering
2003-06-11 18:15 ` Bill Nottingham
2003-06-12 19:43 ` David Brownell
2003-06-12 19:45 ` Bill Nottingham [this message]
2003-06-12 20:10 ` David Brownell
2003-06-12 20:19 ` Olaf Hering
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