linux-kernel - Re: Wait for console to become available, v3.2

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Date:	Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:24:18 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
cc:	David VomLehn <dvomlehn@...co.com>,
	Jamie Lokier <jamie@...reable.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux USB Mailing List <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Embedded Mailing List <linux-embedded@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Wait for console to become available, v3.2

On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, Alan Cox wrote:

> > 2.	All devices have been probed
> > If we exit for reason 2, it means that no such device is present,
> > and we go on to the do the appropriate thing for that device class.
> 
> USB has no notion of #2 really

That's true, it doesn't.  But it _does_ rather have a notion of "all 
devices that were present at boot time have been probed".  That should 
be good enough.

Alan Stern

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