Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:58:08 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] raid: make RAID autodetect default a KConfig option |
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On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:45:19 +1000 Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> wrote:
> 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 pushed to git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arjan/linux-2.6-fastboot.git master
Ingo, please pull
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