Re: Recommendation for activating a deferred module init in the kernel

From: Stefan Richter
Date: Tue Jun 17 2008 - 20:11:05 EST


Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
I think the USB bus enumeration can take significant time:
recognize a device is connected, turn on bus power, try
to read descriptors (bus powered devices might be slow to
respond after power up). And this will happen even with
drivers_autoprobe == 0, right?

Probably... I don't know which particular steps happen in the USB core before upper layer drivers are bound. Not binding the [eou]hci-hcd PCI driver would certainly be more effective.
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