Re: fastboot/async and initramfs: How am I supposed to know when devices are finished initializing?

["Thomas Bächler" <thomas@archlinux.org>]

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Kay Sievers schrieb:
> In initramfs, you have to wait until the device shows up, not for a
> random module to initialize, or a bus to be scanned -- that can never
> work correctly, it's pure luck, that your logic was always slower than
> the kernel.
> 
> You need a block device -- so you should just wait for the block
> device, instead of making assumptions about initialization of drivers
> or buses. :)

I am planning to do that but there is one problem: Usually, the user 
specifies a root device, or a device that I want to open with 
cryptsetup, or anything similar and I can wait until it shows up.

For lvm however, the user does not specify a specific block device that 
I can wait for, instead lvm scans all available block devices. Now, how 
do I know that the block device that contains my physical volume is 
already there? Maybe I have several hard drives, and several volume 
groups, so should I now call vgchange -ay again and again until the 
right volume group shows up?


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