Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 1 May 2005 17:01:42 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alan Stern <> | Subject | Re: [linux-usb-devel] init 1 kill khubd on 2.6.11 |
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On Sun, 1 May 2005, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> Hub driver is using SIGKILL to terminate khubd. Unfortunately on a number of > distributions switching init levels implicitly does "killall -9", killing > khubd. The only way to restart it is to reload USB subsystem. > > Is signal usage in this case really needed? What about replacing it with > simple flag (i.e. will patch be accepted)?
IMO the problem lies in those distributions. They should not indiscrimately kill processes when switching init levels.
Alan Stern
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