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

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Date:	Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:51:53 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	Linux USB kernel mailing list <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	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)

> > Though it's an onboard USB SSD, not a pluggable stick.
> 
> Wow, that's insane.  Leave it to a hardware designer to use a bus that
> you never know if you have discovered all the devices to be the primary
> device to boot from.

Let me see:

- Standardised small component
- Low pin count and low wire count bus
- Cheap

In an embedded environment where you know the device is wired in at
software level that strikes me not as insane but very sensible.
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