Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

[J.A. Magallon]

On 2005.01.16, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Joseph Fannin wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 12:23:52AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> >>ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11-rc1/2.6.11-rc1-mm1/
> > 
> > 
> >>waiting-10s-before-mounting-root-filesystem.patch
> >>  retry mounting the root filesystem at boot time
> > 
> > 
> >     With this patch, initrds seem to get 'skipped'.  I think this is
> > probably the cause for the reports of problems with RAID too.
> 
> This patch should do the job. Replaces the existing 
> waiting-10s-before-mounting-root-filesystem.patch in 2.6.11-rc1-mm1.
> 
> Daniel
> 

> Retry up to 20 times if mounting the root device fails.  This fixes booting
> from usb-storage devices, which no longer make their partitions immediately
> available. Also cleans up the mount_block_root() function.
> 
> Based on an earlier patch from William Park <opengeometry@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 

This does not patch against -mm1. -mm1 looks like a mix of plain 2.6.10
and your code.
Could you revamp it against -mm1, please ? I looked at it but seems out
of my understanding...

TIA

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