On Sat, 25 Apr 2009, Jamie Lokier wrote: > I'm thinking this broader use: > > - My boot _script_ is waiting for a disk which identifies as > UUID=392852908752345749857 to appear before it can mount it on > /data. If there's no such disk, it proceeds without it. It's a > USB disk, behind a USB hub. > > - My boot script is looking to see if I'm holding down 'z' on the > keyboard, to do something different. But how does it know if > there's a USB keyboard plugged in (behind two USB hubs) that > hasn't finished being detected? > > It just seemed to fit comfortably into what's being discussed. Are you suggesting this new interface be exported to userspace somehow? Alan Stern -- 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
