linux-kernel - Re: [patch 2/4] fastboot: retry mounting the root fs if we can't find init

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Date:	Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:35:04 -0700
From:	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu,
	Simon Arlott <simon@...e.lp0.eu>,
	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...access.nl>,
	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/4] fastboot: retry mounting the root fs if we can't
	find init

On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 15:13 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> +               /*
> +                * We haven't found init yet... potentially because the device
> +                * is still being probed. We need to
> +                * - flush keventd and friends
> +                * - wait for the known devices to complete their probing
> +                * - try to mount the root fs again
> +                */
> +               flush_scheduled_work();
> +               while (driver_probe_done() != 0)
> +                       msleep(100);

I realize the while() loop above is just code shifted from
init/do_mounts_md.c , but I'm wondering if that could be a complete
instead of a while then sleep 100ms .. That would reduce the overshoot .

Daniel

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