linux-kernel - Re: USB storage no-boot regression (bisected)

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Date:	Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:30:28 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
CC:	Linux USB kernel mailing list <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Subject: Re: USB storage no-boot regression (bisected)

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



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