On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 20:13 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 02:35:26PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > 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. > > Right. Theres the option of doing it when its actually useful inconveniencing > that user once each time they plug the device in, which takes maybe a few > seconds. And if the reader is plugged in at system boot, then it actually doesn't end up being a net difference as the daemon will _still_ be getting started during boot but the advantage is it will only be happening for the users who want it. I should really start filing this set of bugs as I think it's a pretty straight-forward set of fixes that should have a noticeable impact on boot time. Jeremy -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
