rhgb-0.10.2-1

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:

> Le mar 14/10/2003 à 09:38, Behdad Esfahbod a écrit :
> > On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> >
> > > Le lun 13/10/2003  22:07, Bill Nottingham a crit :
> > > > Behdad Esfahbod (behdad at cs.toronto.edu) said:
> > > > > A related question:  Can't one ask kudzu to scan just a few
> > > > > buses?  Say, USB and firewire only?
> > > >
> > > > Setting SAFE=yes in /etc/sysconfig/kudzu turns off the PS/2 and
> > > > serial probes, which are the big time sinks.
> > >
> > > And USB has no business being in a startup probe system like kudzu - usb
> > > belongs in hotplug scripts
> >
> > Last time I remember needed to run kudzu to install a USB
> > printer.  Same for the scanner...
>
> Sure - right now you need kudzu for this.
> But this does not mean you should do it here - kudzu for usb devices is
> an horror. They are typically never always-on (or always plugged in)
> which means if the user doesn't learn to plug and power-on everything
> before the boot sequence he'll be deluged with helpful kudzu messages
> asking him to remove printer, scanner... configuration.

This is another reason that one should
chkconfig --level 2345 kudzu off
;)


> Kudzu is only good for build-in devices. And even for them the kernel
> people are moving to an hotplug-only setup.
>
> Regards,

behdad