Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262673AbVEAVBu (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 May 2005 17:01:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262674AbVEAVBu (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 May 2005 17:01:50 -0400 Received: from [140.247.233.35] ([140.247.233.35]:25844 "HELO netrider.rowland.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262673AbVEAVBp (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 May 2005 17:01:45 -0400 Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 17:01:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Alan Stern X-X-Sender: stern@netrider.rowland.org To: Andrey Borzenkov cc: linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] init 1 kill khubd on 2.6.11 In-Reply-To: <200505012021.56649.arvidjaar@mail.ru> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 768 Lines: 19 On Sun, 1 May 2005, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > Hub driver is using SIGKILL to terminate khubd. Unfortunately on a number of > distributions switching init levels implicitly does "killall -9", killing > khubd. The only way to restart it is to reload USB subsystem. > > Is signal usage in this case really needed? What about replacing it with > simple flag (i.e. will patch be accepted)? IMO the problem lies in those distributions. They should not indiscrimately kill processes when switching init levels. Alan Stern - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/