Kay Sievers wrote: > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 01:12, Jamie Lokier <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Kay Sievers wrote: > >> > _If_ the system doesn't wait for all block devices present at boot to > >> > be enumerated before the boot script, then when the script looks in > >> > that directory for a specific UUID, it would be good to wait until > >> > "has everything present at boot been enumerated?" says yes. > >> > >> That's what distros do with initramfs today. > > > > I don't see how that's possible. Haven't we been discussing how the > > USB driver does not have any support (yet) for saying when it's found > > every device present at boot time, and that it can probably be added? > > It's easy for the rootfs, or any other mandatory filesystem, unlike it > is for the console stuff. > > There is no timeout, distro's initramfs waits for the specified root > device until it appears. It's simple, there is nothing else to do for > it. It does not care what bus it is, or who is probing what for how > long. It loads all drivers it finds hardware for, and then spins until > the device shows up and continues. Ok. I'm specifically _not_ talking about mandatory filesystems. Thanks :-) -- Jamie -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
