Re: [PATCH] Configurable delay before mounting root device

[William Park]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 08:55:54PM +0000, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Adds a boot parameter which can be used to specify a delay (in seconds) 
> before the root device is decoded/discovered/mounted.
> 
> Example usage for 10 second delay:
> 
> 	rootdelay=10
> 
> Useful for usb-storage devices which no longer make their partitions 
> immediately available, and for other storage devices which require some 
> "spin-up" time.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@xxxxxxxxxx>

Very concise.  It's much better than 2.4 patch or its 2.6 adaptation (my
patch)...

-- 
William Park <opengeometry@xxxxxxxx>, Toronto, Canada
Slackware Linux -- because I can type.
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