Messages in this thread | | | From | Neil Brown <> | Date | Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:45:19 +1000 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] raid: make RAID autodetect default a KConfig option |
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On Monday September 22, mingo@elte.hu wrote: > > * Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote: > > > From 812bf9a448d96375a3aec5c51764d74cace85abb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > > From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> > > Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:44:32 -0700 > > Subject: [PATCH] raid: make RAID autodetect default a KConfig option > > > > RAID autodetect has the side effect of requiring synchronisation of > > all device drivers, which can make the boot several seconds longer > > (I've measured 7 on one of my laptops).... even for systems that don't > > have RAID setup for the root filesystem (the only FS where this > > matters). > > > > This patch makes the default for autodetect a config option; either > > way the user can always override via the kernel command line. > > Neil, if you agree with this patch, could you please send your Acked-by > line? This patch depends on a clean-up in init/do_mounts_md.c that is in > the fastboot tree so it would be logistically easier/better if we could > queue this up towards upstream via tip/fastboot.
Yes, Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
I'm not a big fan of autodetect in any case, and this patch seems to cover all the bases I can think of.
Thanks, NeilBrown
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