Re: [PATCH] USB: Only enable autosuspend by default on certain device classes

[Matthew Garrett]

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 10:41:13AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > I'm not so 
> > enthusiastic about the "Increase the timeout case" - it doesn't avoid 
> > any races, just makes them less likely. USB is likely to get loaded in 
> > the initramfs, but we may not have a full set of udev rules until the 
> > root fs is up and that can take an effectively arbitrarily large amount 
> > of time.
> 
> If it takes longer than 15 minutes, something is wrong.  At that point 
> the user will have worse things to worry about than whether some USB 
> devices got suspended.

Imagine cases where / is fscked from initramfs?

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