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From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Subject: Re: /proc/partitions not done updating when init is ran?
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Followup to:  <52044.192.168.1.12.1076632825.squirrel@mail.2thebatcave.com>
By author:    "Nick Bartos" <spam99@2thebatcave.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> >
> > Well, does it still happen with 2.4.25-rc2 ?
> >
> 
> yes it does, and it does for 2.6.2 as well.
> 
> I did a couple of dmesg's and it looks like the usb device is not being
> detected until after init is ran.  I would think that the kernel would
> have done all the device detection before running init but I guess not.
> 

Yes, the "delayed detect" behaviour of USB is a big problem.

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