Kernel probe order issues

Peter Jeremy peterjeremy at acm.org
Tue Feb 2 06:36:40 UTC 2010


On 2010-Feb-01 11:37:33 +0200, Andriy Gapon <avg at icyb.net.ua> wrote:
>> This strikes me as undesirable.  Is there some way to bump up the
>> probe/attach priority of console input devices to ensure that they
>> exist before the kernel tries to read input?
>
>It seems to be a problem with either your keyboard or your USB controller.
>USB keyboard can be discovered much earlier than mountroot if the hardware is
>ready.  No magical software priority bump can help here.

I've tried a couple of different USB ports (controllers) with no
change in behaviour.  I'll try another keyboard if I can find one.  It
_does_ work as expected on 7.x so this is a regression.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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