IDEA: Shortening boot-time

[Hans de Goede]

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 11:54:08AM +0200, Florian Schirmer wrote:
> 
>>soon as a new device is detected (doesn't matter wether the device was 
>>connected during startup or hotplugged)  /sbin/hotplug can handle that. 
>>There is no need for kudzu to look at usb devices at all...
> 
> 
> Kudzu depends on USB keyboard being present (as does the "i" key and
> the fsck options stuff). Once there is a USB keyboard present then we
> could proceed (or on a timeout when we conclude there is no keyboard to
> be found)
> 

Interesting, so we load the usb-stack, and wait till 
/dev/input/keyboard0 can be openened and then continue, with a timeout 
in case there is no keyb (servers)

-what about USB-storage, will hotplug handle the fsck too?

-and what about USB-network, will hotplug handle setting up the
  interface, and what about daemons who depend on the network?

Regards,

Hans



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