Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753959AbZDYDLV (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:11:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752244AbZDYDLF (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:11:05 -0400 Received: from netrider.rowland.org ([192.131.102.5]:52419 "HELO netrider.rowland.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750884AbZDYDLE (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:11:04 -0400 Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:11:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Alan Stern X-X-Sender: stern@netrider.rowland.org To: Jamie Lokier cc: David VomLehn , Alan Cox , 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: <20090425014152.GD23106@shareable.org> 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: 978 Lines: 25 On Sat, 25 Apr 2009, Jamie Lokier wrote: > I'm thinking this broader use: > > - My boot _script_ is waiting for a disk which identifies as > UUID=392852908752345749857 to appear before it can mount it on > /data. If there's no such disk, it proceeds without it. It's a > USB disk, behind a USB hub. > > - My boot script is looking to see if I'm holding down 'z' on the > keyboard, to do something different. But how does it know if > there's a USB keyboard plugged in (behind two USB hubs) that > hasn't finished being detected? > > It just seemed to fit comfortably into what's being discussed. Are you suggesting this new interface be exported to userspace somehow? 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/