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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Lightweight patch manager <patch@luckynet.dynu.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.5] wait for devices to wake up before mounting root, but don't hang
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 17:06:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020604000648.GS23446@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206031706400.11309-100000@hawkeye.luckynet.adm>

On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 05:31:03PM -0600, Lightweight patch manager wrote:
> Don't hang while waiting for root device to come up
> 
> Someone mentioned that USB devices etc. can't be used for root fs since 
> it's probably not yet available at boot time. This approach is broken, for 
> sure, but it's at least supposed to rescue a small part of the whole (if 
> you see a panic, you know something went atree).

Why only loop for 60 seconds?

I prefer the patch posted previously by Eric Lammerts that just loops
forever.  But that's just me :)

thanks,

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2002-06-04  0:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-03 23:31 [PATCH][2.5] wait for devices to wake up before mounting root, but don't hang Lightweight patch manager
2002-06-04  0:06 ` Greg KH [this message]

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