From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261328AbVCOPsM (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Mar 2005 10:48:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261342AbVCOPsM (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Mar 2005 10:48:12 -0500 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:12443 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261328AbVCOPsJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Mar 2005 10:48:09 -0500 Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:47:51 +0100 From: Jens Axboe To: Jon Smirl Cc: Jeff Garzik , lkml Subject: Re: current linus bk, error mounting root Message-ID: <20050315154751.GB4237@suse.de> References: <20050310075049.GA30243@suse.de> <9e4733910503100658ff440e3@mail.gmail.com> <20050310153151.GY2578@suse.de> <9e473391050310074556aad6b0@mail.gmail.com> <20050310154830.GB2578@suse.de> <9e47339105031007595b1e0cc3@mail.gmail.com> <20050310160155.GC2578@suse.de> <9e4733910503100818df5fb2@mail.gmail.com> <20050310162918.GD2578@suse.de> <9e4733910503150739708a7414@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9e4733910503150739708a7414@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Mar 15 2005, Jon Smirl wrote: > Is this problem still being tracked? > > I have figured out a work around of adding a 1 second pause in nash > after the ata_piix driver is loaded. Something has changed in the > driver initialization timing such that later stages of boot try to > access the driver before the driver has created the device without the > pause. > > I am using Fedora Core 3 un modified except for the addition of the 1 > second pause. If the /dev showup timing is a problem, you were just lucky that it worked before and I don't consider it a kernel issue. -- Jens Axboe