From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri) Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 19:36:56 +0000 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 089 release Message-Id: <20060405193656.GA22766@wonderland.linux.it> MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="zhXaljGHf11kAtnf" List-Id: References: <20060403171123.GA24860@vrfy.org> In-Reply-To: <20060403171123.GA24860@vrfy.org> To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org --zhXaljGHf11kAtnf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Apr 05, Scott James Remnant wrote: > In the initramfs, we exercise a little more caution; making sure that we > only probe PCI IDE or SCSI controllers first before we move on to > probing for USB buses. The reasoning for this is that we don't want > someone's fast USB pen drive beating their SATA or SCSI disk to > getting /dev/sda1 Why would this be a bad? > This may be unique to Ubuntu where we try to have an initramfs image > that can do everything, rather than customising it per-install; but then Debian does too, and it loads everything. --=20 ciao, Marco --zhXaljGHf11kAtnf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFENBxYFGfw2OHuP7ERAsjbAJ9wAXW5ZKtqb6KXwISd9FYRSFhQHACcC9F+ 6LdJtwZgiv/RW8eaIs3Tp8Y= =9YB3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --zhXaljGHf11kAtnf-- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel