If there are network devices that could probe without some of their suppliers probing and those network devices are needed to mount a network rootfs, then fw_devlink=on might break that usecase by blocking the network devices from probing by the time IP auto config starts. So, if no network devices are available when IP auto config is enabled and we have a network rootfs, make sure fw_devlink doesn't block the probing of any device that has a driver and then retry finding a network device. Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv4/ipconfig.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c index 9d41d5d5cd1e..2342debd7066 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c +++ b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c @@ -1434,6 +1434,7 @@ __be32 __init root_nfs_parse_addr(char *name) static int __init wait_for_devices(void) { int i; + bool try_init_devs = true; for (i = 0; i < DEVICE_WAIT_MAX; i++) { struct net_device *dev; @@ -1452,6 +1453,11 @@ static int __init wait_for_devices(void) rtnl_unlock(); if (found) return 0; + if (try_init_devs && + (ROOT_DEV == Root_NFS || ROOT_DEV == Root_CIFS)) { + try_init_devs = false; + wait_for_init_devices_probe(); + } ssleep(1); } return -ENODEV; -- 2.36.1.255.ge46751e96f-goog