Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 Jul 2009 21:20:04 +1000 | Subject | Re: can we move USB_DEVICEFS to non-embedded? | From | Dave Airlie <> |
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On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Kay Sievers<kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:54, Dave Airlie<airlied@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Okay can we revert this for a better reason? it seems to have unhidden a race >> condition on booting some of my machines. I've booted some other machines >> with the same USB disk and the same kernel fine. > > Are you sure? USBFS is for userspace USB drivers, booting from > usb-storage devices should be fully handled by the kernel. >
Yes, changing just this option means the difference between a bootable and stuck in initrd system. maybe Peter knows if our initrd does something otherwise I suspect we have a race that usbfs was hiding.
Dave.
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