Re: NFSROOT mount fails on SPARC after 2.6.37

Trond Myklebust
2011-11-05T02:38:46Z

On Fri, 2011-11-04 at 22:03 -0400, David Miller wrote:
> Should be fixed by:
>
> commit 3fb72f1e6e6165c5f495e8dc11c5bbd14c73385c
> Author: Micha Nelissen <micha@neli.hopto.org>
> Date: Thu May 19 10:14:06 2011 +0000
>
> ipconfig wait for carrier
>
> v3 -> v4: fix return boolean false instead of 0 for ic_is_init_dev
>
> Currently the ip auto configuration has a hardcoded delay of 1 second.
> When (ethernet) link takes longer to come up (e.g. more than 3 seconds),
> nfs root may not be found.
>
> Remove the hardcoded delay, and wait for carrier on at least one network
> device.

What will happen if there is more than one NIC, but only one if those
NICs is being configured with a static IP address (i.e. no auto
configuration)?

Trond
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