Re: CONFIG_SCSI_WAIT_SCAN=m

From: James Bottomley
Date: Fri Apr 06 2007 - 11:51:53 EST


Sorry, was waiting for a reply on this one ... didn't realise it hadn't
cc'd linux-scsi ...

James

On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 17:25 +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> I'm not using an initrd, most of my kernel is builtin,
> just a few modules for occasional filesystems.
>
> CONFIG_MODULES=y
> CONFIG_SCSI=y
> CONFIG_SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC=y
> CONFIG_SCSI_WAIT_SCAN=m
>
> 2.6.21-rc5-mm2 VFS panics unable to find my root on /dev/sda2,
> but boots okay if I change drivers/scsi/Kconfig to "default y"
> instead of "default m" for SCSI_WAIT_SCAN.
>
> I'm sure that's not the right fix, but I don't know what is.
>
> I've had no trouble with SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC=y until now: I could
> turn it off, but others may have trouble with the same regression.
>
> Hugh

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