Re: [patch 3/4] fastboot: make the raid autodetect code wait for all devices to init

[Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>]

On Sunday July 20, arjan@infradead.org wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:06:36 +1000
> Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> wrote:
> 
> >     if (driver_probe_done() != 0) {
> > 	printk("md: Waiting for all devices to be available before
> > autodetect\n" "md:  If you don't boot off raid, use
> > raid=noautodetect\n"); do
> 
> 
> how about this patch?

Well,

> -		while (driver_probe_done() != 0)
> +		printk(KERN_INFO "md: Waiting for all devices to be available before autodetect\n");
> +		printk(KERN_INFO "md: If you don't use raid, use raid=noautodetect\n");

that's better thanks.  I'm quite happy with that.


> +		while (driver_probe_done())
>  			msleep(100);

That's worse.  Now it really looks like a boolean that is being used
wrongly.  It seems that driver_probe_done either returns 0 or -EBUSY,
so I'd prefer

> +		while (driver_probe_done() < 0)
>  			msleep(100);

or even

> +		while (driver_probe_done() == -EBUSY)
>  			msleep(100);

though that is less robust.

Thanks,
NeilBrown