[OLPC-devel] video

Ronald G Minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Fri Jul 28 22:36:53 EDT 2006


Richard Smith wrote:

> I think your rants about how slow the USB disk fobs are may be a
> little inaccurate.
> 
> Linux has a built in 5 second delay while it "waits for the device to 
> settle"
> 
> In an upcoming product we use a custom USB stack and I've used it with
> plenty (so far 10 different mfgs) of disk fobs that are ready for use
> after a 500mS reset.
> 
> I bet there was some old usb key that was a little slow and someone
> stuck a way overkill delay in there to be safe.
> 
> Perhapas we should set that delay to 0 and see how many fobs still work.
> 

Good to know. Those delays are just crazy.

ron



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