From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>,
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
Linux USB kernel mailing list <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>,
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Subject: Re: USB storage no-boot regression (bisected)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 06:34:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090416063401.32ced22a@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090416115153.68589464@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:51:53 +0100
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > > Though it's an onboard USB SSD, not a pluggable stick.
> >
> > Wow, that's insane. Leave it to a hardware designer to use a bus
> > that you never know if you have discovered all the devices to be
> > the primary device to boot from.
>
> Let me see:
>
> - Standardised small component
> - Low pin count and low wire count bus
> - Cheap
>
> In an embedded environment where you know the device is wired in at
> software level that strikes me not as insane but very sensible.
I'm not surprised usb is used for storage. What I am surprised at is
that USB is used in such high end environments that rootwait is not
sufficient and that the panic-rebooter is needed for the reliability.
--
Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-16 13:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-14 21:06 USB storage no-boot regression (bisected) Jeff Garzik
2009-04-15 1:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-04-15 2:30 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-15 2:44 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-04-15 2:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-15 3:09 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-04-15 8:40 ` Alan Cox
2009-04-15 1:49 ` Greg KH
2009-04-15 2:35 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-15 2:46 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-04-15 5:09 ` Greg KH
2009-04-15 13:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-15 14:25 ` Mark Lord
2009-04-15 14:30 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-04-15 15:37 ` Mark Lord
2009-04-15 19:58 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-04-15 21:55 ` Mark Lord
2009-04-16 1:32 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-04-16 2:14 ` Mark Lord
2009-04-16 2:54 ` Greg KH
2009-04-16 10:51 ` Alan Cox
2009-04-16 13:34 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2009-04-16 13:49 ` Mark Lord
2009-04-16 2:17 ` Hal Murray
2009-04-16 3:42 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-15 15:01 ` Alan Cox
2009-04-15 15:47 ` Alan Stern
2009-04-15 15:49 ` Mark Lord
2009-04-15 17:06 ` VomLehn
2009-04-15 17:32 ` Alan Cox
2009-04-15 20:06 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-04-15 20:20 ` VomLehn
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