IDEA: Shortening boot-time

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Tue Jul 27 10:02:05 UTC 2004


On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 11:54:08AM +0200, Florian Schirmer wrote:
> soon as a new device is detected (doesn't matter wether the device was 
> connected during startup or hotplugged)  /sbin/hotplug can handle that. 
> There is no need for kudzu to look at usb devices at all...

Kudzu depends on USB keyboard being present (as does the "i" key and
the fsck options stuff). Once there is a USB keyboard present then we
could proceed (or on a timeout when we conclude there is no keyboard to
be found)






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