Re: USB storage no-boot regression (bisected)

Mark Lord
2009-04-15T21:55:32Z

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:37:44 -0400
> Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> wrote:
>
>> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>>> On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:25:05 -0400
>>> Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> wrote:
..
>>>> Not forever, just a few seconds to compensate for the regression.
>>> seconds!!!!!
>>> The whole kernel boots in half a second!
>> ..
>>
>> Oh, absolutely I agree.
>>
>> That's why I'm not suggesting a DELAY
>> but rather a TIMEOUT (where it keeps trying up until the timeout).
>
> This exists today. It's just not something Jeff chose to use ;)
> (because he didn't need to)
>
>> For desktop, it should really just wait forever,
>> but I can understand situations (server room)
>> where that would be a Really Bad Idea.
>
> it's called rootwait and such :)
..

No, that's not the same thing.
rootwait has no timeout -- it waits *forever*,
which will break auto-recovery on servers.

We just need it to wait/retry up to a timeout (parameter?).

Thanks