Re: /proc/partitions not done updating when init is ran?

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Feb 12 2004 - 22:31:45 EST


Followup to: <52044.192.168.1.12.1076632825.squirrel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author: "Nick Bartos" <spam99@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> >
> > Well, does it still happen with 2.4.25-rc2 ?
> >
>
> yes it does, and it does for 2.6.2 as well.
>
> I did a couple of dmesg's and it looks like the usb device is not being
> detected until after init is ran. I would think that the kernel would
> have done all the device detection before running init but I guess not.
>

Yes, the "delayed detect" behaviour of USB is a big problem.

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