Re: current linus bk, error mounting root

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 08:14:29PM -0500, Kyle Moffett wrote:
> On Mar 21, 2005, at 19:19, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>Jens is right that this is a user space issue, but how many people are
> >>going to find this out the hard way when their root drives stop
> >>mounting. Since no one is complaining I have to assume that most
> >>kernel developers have their root device drivers built into the
> >>kernel. I was loading mine as a module since for a long time Redhat
> >>was not shipping kernels with SATA built in.
> >
> >I don't agree that this is a userspace issue.  It's just not sane for a
> >driver to be in an unusable state for an arbitrary length of time after
> >modprobe returns.
> 
> What about if I'm booting from a USB drive?

That's a different issue, as you stated.  There are other patches
floating around that address this.

thanks,

greg k-h
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