Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:48:50 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: USB storage no-boot regression (bisected) |
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Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:30:28 -0400 > Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote: > >> Arjan van de Ven wrote: >>> This change just made it go faster enough for you to be out of luck; >>> fundamentally your userland needs to wait if the device it wants is >>> not there. >> All these drivers are in-kernel, and the root device is passed via >> command line. There is no userland at that point, that needs to wait. > > ok fair; but that does not change that the kernel does not know if a > device is coming. > Yes that sucks; sadly USB is just this way, you don't know when no new > devices will come from a certain bus.
Perhaps -- but I can say that kernels <= 2.6.27 booted with 100% reliability.
Now, Kernels >= 2.6.28 always fail.
The ONLY variable is the kernel.
Jeff
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