On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 01:06:14PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > For other pieces it's hard. Non-enumeratable busses just suck; > at some point all you can do is just wait (which we have already > available today for anyone to do). I realize people don't want to > just wait 4 seconds (the people who first objected to boot time > improvements then suddenly care about boot time ;-)... We can do better than just waiting. What we want to do is to wait until a suitable device becomes available. For USB console, the patch I submitted yesterday waits for the first console to be registered. That might not be quite right, but it's a lot better than no console at all. For network devices, we have to wait for a specific device and I haven't had a chance to look at this. For both types of devices, we can timeout after a reasonable interval, for some definition of reasonable. Waiting for a suitable device preserves fast boot times, timing out allows the system to come up enough to try to diagnose the problem. David VomLehn -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
