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Bug#286001: current status



On Sunday 05 February 2006 20:23, Joey Hess wrote:
> Would this be safe? Probably, since discover runs after udev at boot
> and all modules are probably loaded before it runs, and as noted if it
> disagreed with the kernel about a module, the 2.6 kernel will refuse to
> load it. So the system's behavior should be unchanged whether discover1
> is installed or not, with the exception of X's remaining use of it for
> hardware detection.

I mostly agree with this analysis.
Probably the only modules that could be missed by not installing discover 
would be devices that are not sysfs ready and are not needed to boot the 
system.

BTW. Did you ever run the script from discover you used earlier in this BR 
for a 2.6 kernel?

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