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SubjectRe: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

On 2005.01.16, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Joseph Fannin wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 12:23:52AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> >>ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11-rc1/2.6.11-rc1-mm1/
> >
> >
> >>waiting-10s-before-mounting-root-filesystem.patch
> >> retry mounting the root filesystem at boot time
> >
> >
> > With this patch, initrds seem to get 'skipped'. I think this is
> > probably the cause for the reports of problems with RAID too.
>
> This patch should do the job. Replaces the existing
> waiting-10s-before-mounting-root-filesystem.patch in 2.6.11-rc1-mm1.
>
> Daniel
>

> Retry up to 20 times if mounting the root device fails. This fixes booting
> from usb-storage devices, which no longer make their partitions immediately
> available. Also cleans up the mount_block_root() function.
>
> Based on an earlier patch from William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
>

This does not patch against -mm1. -mm1 looks like a mix of plain 2.6.10
and your code.
Could you revamp it against -mm1, please ? I looked at it but seems out
of my understanding...

TIA

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