Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:53:53 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: udev is too slow creating devices |
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On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 04:38:28PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 10:30:35 -0700 Greg KH wrote: > > | On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 10:00:52PM +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > | > > | > OK. The fact is that, when mounting the root filesystem, the kernel can > | > (?) definitely say "there is no such device, and it's useless to wait > | > for it--so I panic". Is it possible to duplicate this logic in the case > | > with udev and modprobe? If so, it should be built into a common place > | > (either the kernel or into modprobe), but not into all apps. > | > | No, we need to just change the kernel to sit and spin for a while if the > | root partition is not found. This is the main problem right now for > | booting off of a USB device (or any other "slow" to discover device.) > | It's a known kernel issue, and there are patches for 2.4 for this, but > | no one has taken the time to update them for 2.6. > > (I'm way behind, and I was hoping this thread would die, but:) > > I've seen 2.6 patches for booting from USB or IEEE1394.
Where?
> Is there a fair chance of getting something for USB/1394 booting > merged? (other than by using initrd)
I want to see this work, as lots of people bug me about this when I meet them with the comment, "Oh, you're the USB maintainer, how come I can't boot off of my USB flash key," which causes me to turn and run away very fast...
thanks,
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