David Brownell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: eBay Great deals on office technology -- on eBay now! Click here: http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
