kudzu "Keep existing configuration" does not act as advertised

[Jonathan Berry]

On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 21:09:57 -0500, Aaron Gaudio
<prothonotar at tarnation.dyndns.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > 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
> 
> I experience the same thing with my laptop. I agree with you that it
> would be nice if there was a way to tell Kudzu "always keep the
> configuration and never ask me about it again!" Unfortunately I think
> you are misinterpreting the ambiguous "Keep this configuration"
> option...
> 
> If you boot up again without the device after saying "keep this
> configuration", you'll find that kudzu doesn't complain about it, and
> the next time you boot up with the device, kudzu won't act like it's
> never seen it before and ask if you want to configure it. However, once
> Kudzu sees the device reappear once, then sees it gone again, it asks
> again if you want to keep or drop the configuration. I presume
> internally the "Keep this configuration" selection is only good until
> the next time the device is detected by kudzu. There is no option (and
> no setting that I know of, though I don't know much about configuring
> kudzu) to let it know that a device should be allowed to come and go at
> its leisure. Such an option would be nice, however, so a bugzilla RFE
> may be in order...

You may be correct in your analysis, though I too would like to see it
work the way we have explained.  Either way, I have filed an RFE on
it:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=152274
Hopefully my rambling is intelligible :).  I guess we'll see now what
RedHat has to say about it.

Jonathan

PS: 
John,
It seems that I did not get your two other replies.  I see them now in
the archives, strange.  Brian's second message tipped me off, thanks
Brian :).  Anyway, I hope you didn't take offense at my reply.  kudzu
runs on start-up for me, and my problem was with removing devices, so
your quick-fix didn't seem to apply. You seem to say a similar thing
in your "afterthoughts" reply.  Also, I was looking more for answers
to put in a bugzilla entry.  It's really not that hard, and hopefully
it does some good :).  I know I can just issue a "chkconfig kudzu off"
and be done with it.  Thanks for your replies.