Re: USB storage no-boot regression (bisected)

Jeff Garzik
2009-04-15T02:30:44Z

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> This change just made it go faster enough for you to be out of luck;
> fundamentally your userland needs to wait if the device it wants is not
> there.

All these drivers are in-kernel, and the root device is passed via
command line. There is no userland at that point, that needs to wait.

If this change added an implicit initramfs requirement, that is a pretty
major regression.

Jeff