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

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Message-ID: <20090416025408.GE4806@kroah.com>
Date:	Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:54:08 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>
Cc:	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)

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:14:38PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:55:08 -0400
> ..
> >> No, that's not the same thing.
> >> rootwait has no timeout -- it waits *forever*,
> >> which will break auto-recovery on servers.
> > 
> > btw while I don't disagree that something like this is nice...
> > 
> > .... who would boot their server from a USB stick for production use?
> ..
> 
> At least one MAJOR storage vendor that I know of.
> Probably more.
> 
> 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.

greg k-h
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