Greg has closed my bug report "Need printk's in drivers/usb/storage/usb.c" that I posted early in 2010: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15332 The printk's were removed in kernel 2.6.33. Puppy Linux has always relied upon them for the 'init' script to determine when the kernel has finished probing for USB drives. The way our init script works, we need to know this. The thing is, our init script needs to know that information, how many drives found, and waits on all "usb-storage: device scan complete" messages. When those printks were removed, fair enough, but nobody could tell us what the alternative is. How else do we get that same information at bootup? As we did not know how to get that info, we have solved the problem our own way. We have a patch to reintroduce the printks. We have this patch for every kernel up to 3.2.x. I am just posting this email to inform the linux-usb developers of what we are doing. If any developer can inform us of an alternative method to the printks patch, we would like to know. If anyone wants to see our usb printks patch, grab one of them from my sources repo, for example 'patches.tar.gz' here: http://bkhome.org/sources/kernel-3.0.17/ Us#er#na#me#: pu#pp#y Pa#ss#wo#rd#: li#nu#x Regards, Barry Kauler -- 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
