Re: [linux-usb-devel] init 1 kill khubd on 2.6.11

[Alan Stern]

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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