On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Matthew Dharm wrote: > This also has all sorts of races between do_mounts 'waiting' and the actual > USB device enumeration. It's entirely possible that the kernel loads via > BIOS, the USB drivers are loaded, that forces devices to disconnect/reset, > and they take a while to re-enumerate. During that delay, the kernel gets > to do_mount; now, no devices show in this "waiting for scan" count. So how does that happen? ->storage_probe fails and driver core calls it later at some point? On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Matthew Dharm wrote: > The right way to do this is via initrd and something like devlabel to wait > for a specific device to appear. On some systems, you may want to wait for > several devices to appear. You should be able to boot from an external USB disk without initrd. That's why we have the current root_delay= hack. Pekka -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
