FC7 plan comments

[Jeff Garzik]

On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 08:25:30PM +0100, Tomas Mraz wrote:
> For example the egate cards are USB devices so the pcscd could
> theoretically be started by udev when the card is plugged in. But the
> library currently doesn't work right when the daemon is (re)started when
> it was already initialized. And even if this was fixed the reaction time
> for an app to actually discover that a smartcard was plugged in is
> already pretty long. So making it even longer due to having to start the
> pcscd is not too good idea.

That's just a one-time cost.  Once its running, you know the user uses
smart cards, so no need add idle-out, daemon-stop complexity.

I think adding a miniscule pause the first time a user uses a SmartCard
after booting the system is just fine, compared to what it gains us.

	Jeff