3.17-rc2: root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 command line parsing fails

[paul.gortmaker@windriver.com (Paul Gortmaker)]

[Re: 3.17-rc2: root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 command line parsing fails] On 17/09/2014 (Wed 14:20) Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

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> I think the problem may be 4dfe694f616e00e6fd83e5bbcd7a3c4d7113493d
> ("init: make rootdelay=N consistent with rootwait behaviour") which
> was merged during the recent window.  This moved the delay after the
> saved_root_name[] handling.  As we can see in the SDP4430 case, the
> order was:

[...]

> 
> 
> If ROOT_DEV was still zero, and root_wait was set (it isn't) we'd then
> try to re-evaluate ROOT_DEV.  ROOT_DEV must be set to mount the rootfs,
> and we can see from the above failure messages that it was still zero.
> That works out, because this code would never be run with root_wait=false.
> 
> The reason it used to work is because the delay came _before_ the first
> "if" above, so causing the first ROOT_DEV lookup to succeed.
> 
> I think it may be better to move the root_delay handling either immediately
> after md_run_setup(), or we need to re-lookup ROOT_DEV after the delay.
> Paul, any thoughts?

After discussing it more on irc, it seems like moving the delay/wait
handling after md_run_setup [i.e. to the original location of delay vs.
the original location of wait] is probably best.

But, given as the original commit log indicated -- there may be a risk
of other corner cases subtly being broken by such a change, it is
probably best if we just revert the original now, and then try again in
the alternate location in the next dev cycle.  I'll send a revert
shortly.

Thanks for diagnosing this.
Paul.
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