From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>,
juhl-lkml@dif.dk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: waiting 10s before mounting root filesystem?
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 06:28:26 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041231082826.GE7081@logos.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041231014905.30b05a11.akpm@osdl.org>
On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 01:49:05AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> >
> > - printk("VFS: Cannot open root device \"%s\" or %s\n",
> > - root_device_name, b);
> > - printk("Please append a correct \"root=\" boot option\n");
> > + if (--tryagain) {
> > + printk (KERN_WARNING "VFS: Waiting %dsec for root device...\n", tryagain);
> > + ssleep (1);
> > + goto retry;
> > + }
> > + printk (KERN_CRIT "VFS: Cannot open root device \"%s\" or %s\n", root_device_name, b);
> > + printk (KERN_CRIT "Please append a correct \"root=\" boot option\n");
>
> Why is this patch needed? If it is to offer the user a chance to insert
> the correct medium or to connect the correct device,
The media may take a while to become readable (think of CDROM).
> why not rely upon the user doing that thing and then hitting reset?
I think this is not the case (only) case the patch covers up.
Yes its ugly.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-31 11:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-27 19:56 waiting 10s before mounting root filesystem? William Park
2004-12-27 20:10 ` Trent Lloyd
2004-12-27 21:23 ` Andreas Unterkircher
2004-12-28 1:54 ` Eric Lammerts
2004-12-29 0:59 ` William Park
2004-12-29 1:38 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-12-29 1:56 ` William Park
2004-12-29 12:49 ` Paulo Marques
2004-12-29 19:15 ` William Park
2004-12-29 19:34 ` Paulo Marques
2004-12-29 20:59 ` William Park
2004-12-29 21:26 ` Andreas Steinmetz
2004-12-31 19:32 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-12-29 21:53 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2004-12-29 22:56 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-12-30 15:25 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-12-30 23:45 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-12-31 1:45 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-12-31 3:58 ` William Park
2004-12-31 4:41 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-12-31 11:31 ` Paulo Marques
2004-12-31 9:49 ` Andrew Morton
2004-12-31 8:28 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2004-12-31 11:40 ` Andrew Morton
2004-12-31 11:26 ` Paulo Marques
2004-12-31 8:58 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-12-31 11:42 ` Andrew Morton
2004-12-31 12:04 ` Paulo Marques
2004-12-31 17:36 ` William Park
2004-12-31 17:48 ` Tomasz Torcz
2004-12-31 18:18 ` William Park
2004-12-31 0:22 ` William Park
[not found] <fa.nc4oh06.1j1872e@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.nalafoa.1ih25aa@ifi.uio.no>
2004-12-31 12:33 ` Bodo Eggert
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