On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Oleg Verych wrote: > > > Thus, i think before (any) rootfs image is ready, use > > > BIOS. If one is ready use userspace. > > > > The kernel cannot use the BIOS; it has to use its own drivers. Reason: As > > soon as the kernel probes the PCI bus, it takes the USB host controllers > > away from the BIOS. > > Sure, but i mean BIOS->bootloader->early-userspace, not kernel here.
In this case, early-userspace is an initrd image. So you would have to put a customized blacklist loader into each initrd. Not impossible, but certainly troublesome. There are other problems with trying to keep the blacklist in userspace. Oliver can tell you more about them; we had a discussion about this some time ago. Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
