From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, 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: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:55:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49E657BC.6000707@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090415125813.34c9a151@infradead.org>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-15 21:55 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 [this message]
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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