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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 02, 1999
Chris Alan Schwendiman, Round Rock, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Device configuration processes operated within an operating system are run in parallel up until one or more new devices are detected. Once that occurs, the configuration process waits for current running processes to complete without starting new ones, and then re-runs the configuration processes needing to define new devices in the order they would have run if the entire operation had been performed serially. As a result, since most configurations processes will not be detecting new devices, they will run all the way to completion in parallel with others, thereby reducing system boot times. However, if a new device is discovered, it will be assigned the correct name with respect to the other devices.