From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266810AbUHCUGN (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Aug 2004 16:06:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265148AbUHCUGN (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Aug 2004 16:06:13 -0400 Received: from frankvm.xs4all.nl ([80.126.170.174]:15046 "EHLO janus.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266824AbUHCUGL (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Aug 2004 16:06:11 -0400 Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 22:06:10 +0200 From: Frank van Maarseveen To: Heikki Linnakangas Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Retrying root mounting for booting off USB Message-ID: <20040803200610.GA5148@janus> Mail-Followup-To: Frank van Maarseveen , Heikki Linnakangas , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Subliminal-Message: Use Linux! Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 10:33:04PM +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > Currently, booting off USB devices doesn't work in all environments. The > root fs mounting code in init/do_mounts.c decides that the root filesystem > is not available and gives up before the USB mass storage driver gets > fully initialized. what do you think of http://dedasys.com/freesoftware/patches/blkdev_wakeup.patch ? http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=109122295308836&w=2 -- Frank