On Thu, 2012-04-26 at 18:09 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 07:05:55PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > > Init is about the boot of the computer, right? Who is stupid enough to > > put in a usb stick _during_ the boot? We need to separate boot from > > adding/removing peripheral devices! > > I've no idea why that would be stupid. > > If I were booting a computer and intended to use some USB peripherals, I > may very well do the plugging prior to boot finishing. Whilst I go off and > make a cup of tea, because the boot STILL takes too long.
If it takes that long time you might consider coreboot! > What sounds stupid to me is having a brittle system that can actually be > disrupted by plugging in a USB stick whilst it's booting! They shouldn't, inserting an USB during boot should not result in an action whatsoever. > Note that I don't necessarily need the hotplugged USB stick to be > available *to the system* during boot - perhaps the plumbing that mounts > it hasn't been started up yet. (And hopefully that GDM3 bug that mounted > disks as the Debian-gdm3 has gone now.) Dunno about gdm3 bug, sorry. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1335472453.3707.148.ca...@hp.my.own.domain
