Stephen Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > USB initialization needs to be a lot earlier than that, so USB input
> > devices can be used for system maintenance if necesarry (like fscks,
> > interactive startup of services etc)
>
> Well, yeah. But what does this have to do with the hotplug scripts?
Events for plugged-in devices are generated when the usb modules are
loaded - so it's run very early.
> I even see in the rc.sysinit that I have (RedHat 7.0 on an alpha)
> that various USB modules are loaded in order to get HID working.
> That's fine.
>
> The /etc/rc.d/init.d/hotplug script is called much later.
It's not called at all...
>
> > The root filesystem is remounted rw in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
> > or equivilent, and the hotplug startup is called after that.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > No.
>
> No?
"hotplug startup is called after that" - we don't. Since the
initilization of usb can cause some machines to crash, we don't run
those initscripts.
--
Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.
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