Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756094AbZDVVYc (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:24:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754291AbZDVVYU (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:24:20 -0400 Received: from iolanthe.rowland.org ([192.131.102.54]:49056 "HELO iolanthe.rowland.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752176AbZDVVYT (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:24:19 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:24:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Alan Stern X-X-Sender: stern@iolanthe.rowland.org To: Alan Cox cc: David VomLehn , Jamie Lokier , Ingo Molnar , Arjan van de Ven , "H. Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux USB Mailing List , Linux Embedded Mailing List , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Wait for console to become available, v3.2 In-Reply-To: <20090422220853.0af12ece@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 669 Lines: 19 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 -- 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/