Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:55:08 -0400 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: USB storage no-boot regression (bisected) |
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Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:37:44 -0400 > Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> wrote: > >> Arjan van de Ven wrote: >>> On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:25:05 -0400 >>> Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> 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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