From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Thibaut VARENE <T-Bone@parisc-linux.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add help to WAIT_SCAN option
Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 14:50:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1180209014.3712.69.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070526191127.GB7080@colo.lackof.org>
On Sat, 2007-05-26 at 13:11 -0600, Grant Grundler wrote:
> Thibaut Varene's parisc box didn't find the root disk.
> Problem is he had ASYNC_SCAN enabled and the required SYM2 driver builtin
> but the root disk wasn't discovered before the kernel wanted to mount root.
> Oh, and he (like many folks who build their own kernels) didn't use
> an initrd or initramfs. So no chance to load scsi_wait_scan module.
>
> This patch enables one to select "y" for WAIT_SCAN option and adds
> help text on how/when to use "m" vs "y".
This solution is still as wrong as it was the last three times it was
submitted to linux-scsi:
http://marc.info/?t=117906989600001
http://marc.info/?t=117926627700012
http://marc.info/?t=117923062000004
A better, but still not quite right fix is here:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=117995785931981
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-26 19:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-26 19:11 [PATCH] add help to WAIT_SCAN option Grant Grundler
2007-05-26 19:50 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2007-05-27 0:06 ` Grant Grundler
2007-05-27 0:15 ` James Bottomley
2007-05-27 0:27 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-05-27 0:29 ` James Bottomley
2007-05-27 0:33 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-05-27 0:53 ` Grant Grundler
2007-05-26 20:44 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-05-26 22:25 ` Thibaut VARENE
2007-05-26 23:03 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-05-26 23:10 ` Thibaut VARENE
2007-05-27 0:05 ` Matthew Wilcox
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