On Mon, 2012-05-28 at 10:00 +0000, maximilian attems wrote: > On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 10:13:46AM +0100, James Bottomley wrote: > > scsi_wait_scan was introduced with asynchronous host scanning as a hack > > for distributions that weren't using proper udev based wait for root to > > appear in their initramfs scripts. In 2.6.30 Commit > > > c751085943362143f84346d274e0011419c84202 > > Author: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> > > Date: Sun Apr 12 20:06:56 2009 +0200 > > > > PM/Hibernate: Wait for SCSI devices scan to complete during resume > > > > Actually broke scsi_wait_scan because it renders > > scsi_complete_async_scans() a nop for modular SCSI if you include > > scsi_scans.h (which this module does). > > > > The lack of bug reports is sufficient proof that this module is no > > longer used. > > We do use it in initramfs-tools. > > There is quite a number of bug reports moaning about having to boot with > `scsi_mod.scan=sync'. I didn't pass them on, because I didn't knew that > the module itself got broken, for example: > http://bugs.debian.org/616689 OK, so what these bugs show is the breakage ... basically scsi_wait_scan isn't really waiting for the scans to complete. I can fix it in stable so you can close your bug reports, but if I do, can you also transition away from using it so I can remove it in 3.5? James -- 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
