Re: USB storage no-boot regression (bisected)

[Jeff Garzik]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 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.

Perhaps -- but I can say that kernels <= 2.6.27 booted with 100% 
reliability.

Now, Kernels >= 2.6.28 always fail.

The ONLY variable is the kernel.

	Jeff



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