From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>,
Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: current linus bk, error mounting root
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 20:02:11 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050322040211.GB13745@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5dab45539e663d50b9e3e5d05fc11336@mac.com>
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 08:14:29PM -0500, Kyle Moffett wrote:
> On Mar 21, 2005, at 19:19, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>Jens is right that this is a user space issue, but how many people are
> >>going to find this out the hard way when their root drives stop
> >>mounting. Since no one is complaining I have to assume that most
> >>kernel developers have their root device drivers built into the
> >>kernel. I was loading mine as a module since for a long time Redhat
> >>was not shipping kernels with SATA built in.
> >
> >I don't agree that this is a userspace issue. It's just not sane for a
> >driver to be in an unusable state for an arbitrary length of time after
> >modprobe returns.
>
> What about if I'm booting from a USB drive?
That's a different issue, as you stated. There are other patches
floating around that address this.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-22 4:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-09 17:03 current linus bk, error mounting root Jon Smirl
2005-03-09 17:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-03-09 18:23 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-09 20:28 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-03-09 20:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-03-09 20:51 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-09 21:09 ` Jens Axboe
2005-03-10 1:16 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-10 7:50 ` Jens Axboe
2005-03-10 14:58 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-10 15:31 ` Jens Axboe
2005-03-10 15:45 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-10 15:48 ` Jens Axboe
2005-03-10 15:59 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-10 16:01 ` Jens Axboe
2005-03-10 16:18 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-10 16:29 ` Jens Axboe
2005-03-10 18:40 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-10 18:52 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-11 3:11 ` Matt Mackall
2005-03-11 3:18 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-15 15:39 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-15 15:47 ` Jens Axboe
2005-03-09 20:34 ` Steven Cole
[not found] ` <20050321154131.30616ed0.akpm@osdl.org>
[not found] ` <9e473391050321155735fc506d@mail.gmail.com>
2005-03-22 0:19 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-22 0:38 ` Greg KH
2005-03-22 0:43 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-22 0:49 ` Greg KH
2005-03-22 0:57 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-22 4:02 ` Greg KH
2005-03-22 1:13 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-22 0:53 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-22 4:03 ` Greg KH
2005-03-22 0:47 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-22 1:14 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-03-22 4:02 ` Greg KH [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-03-12 13:15 Alexander E. Patrakov
2005-03-12 19:56 ` Jon Smirl
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