From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: linas@austin.ibm.com (Linas Vepstas) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 21:21:55 +0000 Subject: Re: Asynchronous scsi scanning, version 9 Message-Id: <20060626212155.GD10505@austin.ibm.com> List-Id: References: <20060518172258.GL1604@parisc-linux.org> <20060529031915.GB23405@parisc-linux.org> <447AB2F5.2000700@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20060529130515.GE23405@parisc-linux.org> <20060531232139.GA3202@us.ibm.com> <447EE81D.2050906@ums.usu.ru> <20060601132315.GD32143@parisc-linux.org> <1151270127.3617.26.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <20060626205832.GC10505@austin.ibm.com> <1151356477.2673.41.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> In-Reply-To: <1151356477.2673.41.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: James Bottomley Cc: linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Matthew Wilcox , Patrick Mansfield , Stefan Richter , "Alexander E. Patrakov" On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 04:14:37PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 15:58 -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote: > > I guess there's no way of figuring out where the root disk is, and > > waiting only for that? > > Well, sure, but you'd do that at user level: you know what the root > disk is, so you just wait on the udev event announcing its arrival. Its possible that I'm making a confused commont based on my mis-understanding a conversation I'm not following closely, but ... Didn't the last patch result in the boot process hanging until all scsi devices were discovered? I was concerned that this might take too long. But if there's no hang, then no problem. --linas Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0709&bid&3057&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel