From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brownell Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2002 17:16:06 +0000 Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: hotplugging to deal with firmware download Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org >>>>The problem is that this cannot simply work, because a filesystem may >>>>be mounted by nfs. If the goal is to boot a diskless Linux box (who supports those?) using a USB networking device that needs firmware download before it can be used ... that'd be _exactly_ analagous to needing to boot from a disk controller that needs firmware downloaded before it will work. In both cases, if the boot ROM doesn't download it, then the system won't boot. _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ 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