kudzu "Keep existing configuration" does not act as advertised

[rado]

> > 
> > Hi Jonathon,
> > quick fix for this:
> > while it's booting...don't touch it...just let it timeout and let the
> > machine boot up. Soon as you are logged in
> > get to a terminal and:
> > # kudzu
> > one kudzu is up, have it reconfigure to satisfy itself.
> > all should be fine now.
> > after this...go to shutdown
> > and, God willing, you won't be bothered w/that again.
> > yes, ino, it's not right but this works for me when I add new hardware.
> > gl!
> > 
> > John Rose
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> Thanks for the reply, but I'm not sure we are on the same page.  Let
> me try again.  I currently have devices connected to my system that
> Fedora (and thus kudzu) knows about.  The two that I mentioned before
> are my keyboard and USB printer.  Sometimes, whether from a quirk with
> the keyboard or from moving my laptop, these devices are not connected
> at startup.  kudzu doesn't like this and asks me whether or not I want
> it to remember that the device should be there.  I tell it to keep the
> configuration, but don't tell me again if you find it to be missing. 
> However, the next time the device is missing, kudzu insists on telling
> me about it.  So, I'm not adding hardware, but temporarily removing
> hardware.  I just don't want kudzu to complain about the missing
> hardware.  It seems like that is what the "Keep existing
> configuration" option is supposed to do, but it doesn't.  If I'm
> correct, then this probably needs to be reported as a bug.  Any ideas?
> 
> I know I can shut off the kudzu service.  For what all is it
> responsible?  Does it have anything to do with hotplug-like stuff?  If
> it has anything to do with configuring devices added after start-up
> (like USB devices), then I want to keep it, but if it only looks for
> changes on start-up, then I don't see the point.  This is treating the
> symptoms, though, not the problem.
> 
> Jonathan

afterthoughts on this...a keyword here is "laptop"...in other words
sometimes certain devices are there and sometimes not. Well, yep, I have
never went to bugzilla for anything and am really dumb on that. I should
faithfully do that but I just put it off and satisfy myself thinking
"oh, someone else already has." There seems to me one thing wrong
w/kudzu...the screen that comes up during boot. ...guess that's a bug.
Excuse me if I am wrong and want to be corrected if I am but it appears
to me that when you take something away from the system. Kudzu, I am
saying "probably" thinks to itself, "it's cool, that's not here anymore,
let me jot this down." then, at a later time you add it back, it's like
another device and it complains. If you keep taking in and taking out, I
would disable kudzu after I found out how to enable it if I chose to
later. I've changed motherboards, kb, mice, nic cards and other things
in this equipment and ya, kudzu does complain, I never try to deal
w/kudzu because of the same problem you speak of at boot up. I always
wait til I am logged in then bring up kudzu and get it to stop the
complaining and move on to the mountain of a project I am working on at
the time.
jr

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