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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] Make prepare_namespace() wait for devices
    Olaf Hering wrote:
    > On Thu, May 24, Pierre Ossman wrote:
    >
    >
    >> init: wait for asynchronously scanned block devices
    >>
    >
    > init/do_mounts.c:242:__setup("rootdelay=", root_delay_setup);
    >
    > Why does that not work for you and how does your patch fix it?
    >

    The problem isn't really mine, I just got the ball when it came to
    fixing it. :)

    The problem with rootdelay= is that it's a hammer when the problem
    requires a screw driver. In order to get reliability, you need to whack
    it hard and give it a long delay. But that has the unpleasant side
    effect of having the boot taking way much more time than it really needs.

    The original thread is here:

    http://marc.info/?t=117879392100022&r=1&w=2

    At the end of that thread I suggest a more universal approach, which I
    submitted for comments here:

    http://marc.info/?t=117914570700004&r=1&w=2

    I believe this is a more clean approach than forcing all subsystems to
    be synchronous.

    Rgds

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    -- Pierre Ossman

    Linux kernel, MMC maintainer http://www.kernel.org
    PulseAudio, core developer http://pulseaudio.org
    rdesktop, core developer http://www.rdesktop.org

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