Thought about speeding up startup...

[Michael S. Jessop]

...well, I ran it by someone else first, and they said I didn't sound
like a total fool... so I'll just cut and paste my original message here
and see what people think... be nice.  :)

> In regards to Hotplug and long startups... would it be possible to
> preconfigure the hardware (hotplug it once, record the results and
> somehow make the results static) at installation?  You would, of
course,
> have to allow for manual scanning of hardware and changes that would
> require modules to be loaded or not, and also a way to to it with
> upgrades or installations (flag stuff somehow)?