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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: 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>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: USB storage no-boot regression (bisected)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:46:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49E5E541.6090108@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090415050947.GB3462@kroah.com>

Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:35:59PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>> Like Arjan said, this is because we are initializing faster now, and
>>> things are a bit more asynchronous.  Use the root_delay boot option,
>>> that's what I use for my USB-based systems, and have not had a problem
>>> with that at all.
>> Is that solution really scalable to every user with a regression severe 
>> enough it prevents them from booting?
>>
>> When did regressions become an acceptable tradeoff for speed?
> 
> So, we aren't allowed to go faster?

Well, when the result fails to boot, you are only going faster to a point :)

Oh well...

	Jeff



  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-15 13:47 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 [this message]
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
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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