some changes for (slightly) faster boot

[Michael Favia]

Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Jeff Spaleta (jspaleta at gmail.com) said: 
> 
>>>  This allows hardware probing to be done only once; the specifics of
>>>  where/how kudzu is run in this setup may be tweaked slightly - the
>>>  initscript may be moved. kudzu also runs without interaction
>>>  now, and just does the configuration of whatever it finds.
>>
>>Does this mean kudzu will remove and unconfigure whatever it doesnt
>>find without interaction  as well?
> 
> 
> Yes. Hence, a large shaking out period.
> 

While the addition and removal of the hardware that is present makes 
sense, the unconfiguration (read: data loss) of that hardware's profile 
does not. Is there not (or shouldn't there be) a mechanism to cache the 
configuration of the devices so that the customizations made to them is 
retained when they are plugged back in? This system would provide the 
benefits of both models (speed, statefulness) without the draw back of 
either (boot speed, digital decay) IMO.

Should the user really want the device to "reset" when it is 
unplugged/poweredoff at restart and then reinstalled later would be to 
somehow manually clear the cache. Which is a much less frequent activity 
i hope.


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