linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC] USB: Add HCD fastboot

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0808061626520.2145-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
Date:	Wed, 6 Aug 2008 16:27:47 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
cc:	Simon Arlott <simon@...e.lp0.eu>,
	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...access.nl>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>,
	USB list <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] USB: Add HCD fastboot

On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> > > > Why is 5 seconds too long?  Too long for what?
> > > 
> > > because I'm done booting to full UI in that time.
> > > 
> > > it's forever.
> > 
> > This doesn't answer my question.  Why does the fact that you're
> > already in the UI after 5 seconds mean that 5 seconds is too long to
> > delay the start of khubd?
> 
> 
> because it means that while the rest of boot is done and the system
> idle, the mouse and keyboard aren't going to work.

Ah, okay.  Then if the delay time were set up as a module parameter, 
you'd be one of the people who leaves the parameter set at its default 
value of 0.

Alan Stern

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