Re: USB storage no-boot regression (bisected)

[Mark Lord]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:37:44 -0400
> Mark Lord <lkml@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > > On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:25:05 -0400
> > > Mark Lord <lkml@xxxxxx> wrote:
..
> > > > Not forever, just a few seconds to compensate for the regression.
> > > seconds!!!!!
> > > The whole kernel boots in half a second!
> > ..
> >
> > Oh, absolutely I agree.
> >
> > That's why I'm not suggesting a DELAY
> > but rather a TIMEOUT (where it keeps trying up until the timeout).
>
> This exists today. It's just not something Jeff chose to use ;)
> (because he didn't need to)
>
> > For desktop, it should really just wait forever,
> > but I can understand situations (server room)
> > where that would be a Really Bad Idea.
>
> it's called rootwait and such :)
..

No, that's not the same thing.
rootwait has no timeout -- it waits *forever*,
which will break auto-recovery on servers.

We just need it to wait/retry up to a timeout (parameter?).

Thanks
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