On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:30:28 -0400 Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > This change just made it go faster enough for you to be out of luck; > > fundamentally your userland needs to wait if the device it wants is > > not there. > > All these drivers are in-kernel, and the root device is passed via > command line. There is no userland at that point, that needs to wait. ok fair; but that does not change that the kernel does not know if a device is coming. Yes that sucks; sadly USB is just this way, you don't know when no new devices will come from a certain bus. > > If this change added an implicit initramfs requirement, that is a > pretty major regression. it didn't; this is what root_wait is for. Having said that, I have a patch that basically retries this stuff inside the kernel if the mount-of-rootfs fails.... (but it's independent of the usb improvement) -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
