On Sun, 1 May 2005, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > Hub driver is using SIGKILL to terminate khubd. Unfortunately on a number of > distributions switching init levels implicitly does "killall -9", killing > khubd. The only way to restart it is to reload USB subsystem. > > Is signal usage in this case really needed? What about replacing it with > simple flag (i.e. will patch be accepted)?
IMO the problem lies in those distributions. They should not indiscrimately kill processes when switching init levels. Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. Get your fingers limbered up and give it your best shot. 4 great events, 4 opportunities to win big! Highest score wins.NEC IT Guy Games. Play to win an NEC 61 plasma display. Visit http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
